Bill:

Darn arrl is worse than a pervert with a box of lollypops around the kids...

Attempting to fool the poor dumb cb'ers into thinking they helped 'em get free
upgrades so they'd buy a membership, it is evil I tell you, evil! Those NC
techs would probably have fallen for it too...

John

"Bill Sohl" wrote in message
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"KXHB" wrote in message
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"Bill Sohl" wrote


The support is/was for ONE-TIME free upgrades as proposed by
the ARRL petition and one or two others. No support was
given to any permananent relaxation of written tests by NCI.


Under this NCI-endorsed plan, 345,802 current hams (using Jim's July 15th
census) would receive a PERMANENT relaxation of the requirement to test for
General and another 75,730 would receive a PERMANENT relaxation of the
requirement to test for Extra. That's means that 421,532 individuals, or
63.4% of the existing hams, would suddenly hold licenses for which they had
not passed the current written examination. Trying to trivialize that as a
simple "one-time" adjustment is intellectually dishonest and a cop-out. By
any reasonable measure, NCI and ARRL both officially are on record as
supporting a lowering of the qualification requirement for General and
Extra.

In your opinion that is.

Hans, we covered all the same territory in this newsgroup
when NCI filed its own petition and also filed responses
to others. For now, anyway, it is a mute point since the
FCC didn't go with the ARRL free upgrades anyway.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK