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November 13th 05, 01:28 PM

wrote:
John Kasupski wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:35:06 GMT, "KØHB" wrote:

Comments to 05-235 attached.

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73, de Hans, K0HB

Very good, Hans.

We're in agreement on the first part, anyway.

But I doubt it will make any difference. Many of the 18 petitions
included
various changes to entry-level license privileges, including the very
obvious one of giving Novice/Tech Plus HF privileges to all Techs. Yet
FCC
repeatedly denied all of them.

In the NPRM, FCC makes it clear that their vision of the future looks
like this:

wrong again

Technician: Entry-level license. All VHF/UHF, no HF

General: Mid-level license. All VHF/UHF, most HF/MF

Extra: Top license, all privileges.

Novice, Tech Plus, Advanced: Old license classes that will disappear
with attrition.

No free or automatic upgrades.

No HF for Technicians who haven't passed
a code test.

73 de Jim, N2EY