From: Dee Flint on Dec 15, 3:21 pm


"Bill Sohl" wrote in message
"Dee Flint" wrote in message
"K؈B" wrote in message
"Dee Flint" wrote



I would expect better OPERATING skills, a higher quality of language
behavior and perhaps more technical discussions...but forget even the
technical discussions....the behavior and operating skill differences
are just not there.

Why would you expect a higher quality of language behavior?

Why would you NOT? Isn't the extra the "highest class?" :-)

All amateurs
are required to know and adhere to the same rules regardless of license.

Ah, but DO they? :-)

That's not evident in here. :-)

Language behavior is covered on the Technician test.

Which "everyone" took, right? :-)

People with a talent for code will tend to be better than the typical
operator regardless of license.

Of COURSE they are! Ask any morseperson...they will ALL say
the same thing!

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


What everyone overlooks is that the test is merely the basic required book
knowledge expected for each level.

"Book knowledge?!?"

The FCC has NEVER been chartered as an academic institution.

Experience is not tested for. The
person who goes straight to Extra will have no more experience and no more
operating skills than anyone else.

WHAT?!? NO EXPERIENCE TESTED?!? How can that be?!?

Tsk, anyone passing the Extra "right out of the box" will have
ALL the privileges, ALL the status, ALL the title as any other
Extra, experience or no.

However, he/she starts with more book knowledge as a platform to build on.

"Book knowledge" again. Is amateur radio the ONLY place to
acquire "radio knowledge?"

But anyone can choose to gain the same knowledge. They do not have to
wait until they are studying for a new license.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. YOu are contradicting OTHER extras in here who
have insisted that one MUST get an amateur radio license
BEFORE getting any commercial license!!!

Plus every amateur is free to pursue improving their skills. The license is
a starting point not a stopping point.

Gosh...I thought it was a GRANT from the Commission to transmit
RF energy on the ham frequencies. Sort of like a hunting or
fishing license allows one to hunt or fish in designated areas.

Aren't "radiosport" contests all about hunting for contact
areas and fishing fishing for radio contacts? :-)


Actually the place that I see the difference in operating skills is on the
VHF bands in the VHF contests. When I review my contacts in those contests,
the large majority of them are Extra class operators. They seem to be the
ones to have the skill necessary to put together and operate a station
suitable to make long distance VHF contacts and the skill to do so.

Wow! Someone should have TOLD the U.S. Army Signal Corps folks
at Evans Signal Laboratory in 1946 when they were the first to
bounce a radio signal off the moon!

Yeah, they should have told the Signal Corps "how to do it" in
Korea in the 1950s when they set out all that VHF radio relay
equipment in the hills and valleys there.

Where WAS the ARRL when all that was going on? They didn't tell
the Signal Corps much of anything...