an_old_friend wrote:
wrote:
John Kasupski wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:35:06 GMT, "KØHB" wrote:
Comments to 05-235 attached.
--
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
How is it wrong, Mark?
All the FCC proposes to do in the NPRM is to drop Element 1 from the
requirements.
Nothing else - in fact, other changes have been specifically denied.
If that is done, the following will be the inevitable result:
Technician: Entry-level license. All VHF/UHF, no HF
With no Element 1, the only way for new hams or existing noncodetested
Techs
to get any HF will be to go for General.
General: Mid-level license. All VHF/UHF, most HF/MF
As it is today, without Element 1
Extra: Top license, all privileges.
As it is today, without Element 1
Novice, Tech Plus, Advanced: Old license classes that will disappear
with attrition.
Which has been going on for the past 5-1/2 years.
No free or automatic upgrades.
Specifically denied by FCC. Nobody loses privileges and nobody gains
privileges.
No HF for Technicians who haven't passed
a code test.
That's what Hans is trying to fix.
Unfortunately FCC doesn't seem to see that as a problem.