Please email mail this to your Division Directors and Section managers.
With a loud voice, maybe we can get the ARRL to work for us instead of
against us:


No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all elements
required for their license class.


The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.


Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.


Make the no-code Tech license one year non-renewable.


sc

Slow Code wrote:
No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all
elements required for their license class.

This sounds like a great way to kill off amateur radio.

Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.
Make the no-code Tech license one year non-renewable.

Um, haven't you been following what is going on in the rest of the
modern world? Code is dead in most first world countries, and in a few
months it will be gone in the U.S. too.

This personifies why the Amateur Radio Service has lost an entire generation
of new members as well as why the average Ham is aged 62.5 years old.

It also goes far in explaining why fewer Emergency Operations Centers
managers look upon Amateur Radio as a viable means of support during an
emergency.

This thinking truly puts the "amateur" back into the Amateur Radio Service.

This is a perfect example of viewing the future through your rear-view
mirror.

All in favor of that should respond to the relay league with their vote for
the continuance of CW as a "filter" ; in spite of the decisions already made
during the WRC03.

It has already "filtered" out the expertise of those receiving the most up
to date training in digital communications.

Show your level of understanding of the current situation; vote for the
continuance of CW as a requirement for the death of the Amateur Radio
Service.

You better do it quickly; the ARRL has already announced new testing
material being released for exams administered after July 1st, 2006.

Wink, Wink - Nudge, Nudge

The Code is dead; long live the code....


"Slow Code" wrote in message
k.net...

Please email mail this to your Division Directors and Section managers.
With a loud voice, maybe we can get the ARRL to work for us instead of
against us:


No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all elements
required for their license class.


The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.


Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.


Make the no-code Tech license one year non-renewable.


sc

here's a thought.. don't feed this troll and we won't have to plonk another
50-message thread.

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"Slow Code" wrote in message
k.net...

Please email mail this to your Division Directors and Section managers.
With a loud voice, maybe we can get the ARRL to work for us instead of
against us:


No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all elements
required for their license class.


The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.


Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.


Make the no-code Tech license one year non-renewable.


sc

"Slow Code" wrote in message
k.net...

Please email mail this to your Division Directors and Section managers.
With a loud voice, maybe we can get the ARRL to work for us instead of
against us:



No way. Your proposals are, in general, not reasonable.

No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all elements
required for their license class.


Actually there are NO automatic renewals now. You must apply for the
renewal. There's really no need to retest.


The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.


Why? It's been 74% as far back as I can remember.


Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.


The original code test back in the earliest days of licensing was only 5wpm.
It would be nice to have the 13wpm as a requirement since that's the speed
at which most people can't count the dits and dahs but those who use it will
get past that anyway. The 20wpm was only icing on the cake so don't see a
real need for it. Those who get to the 13wpm will get to the 20wpm if they
use it much. Although I advocate keeping code testing, we need not
reinstate the 20wpm in my opinion.


Make the no-code Tech license one year non-renewable.


Pointless change. Many people don't gain enough experience or get together
enough of a station in a year to know if they want to continue.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Dee Flint wrote:
"Slow Code" wrote in message
k.net...

Please email mail this to your Division Directors and Section managers.
With a loud voice, maybe we can get the ARRL to work for us instead of
against us:



No way. Your proposals are, in general, not reasonable.
a reasonble if foolish post (it is foolish in that you arguing with a
nut job)

Why??? Morse Code does not make you a better radio operator, On air
experiance does. This idea that morse code makes you a better operatror
is nothing more then a myth.

Todd N9OGL
General Class Operator

N9OGL wrote:
Why??? Morse Code does not make you a better radio operator, On air
experiance does. This idea that morse code makes you a better operatror
is nothing more then a myth.

Todd N9OGL
General Class Operator

be afir it once meant something becuase morse wsas all there was but it
has meant little in my lifetime or your Todd meant fairly little even
in the lifetimes of the ham that scream for it

Woody wrote:
here's a thought.. don't feed this troll and we won't have to plonk another
50-message thread.

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.

Second that!

X-Post canceled)

concur

-n6ojn

"Woody" wrote in message
news:tF6ag.2207$_B5.225@trnddc01...
here's a thought.. don't feed this troll and we won't have to plonk
another 50-message thread.

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"Slow Code" wrote in message
k.net...

Please email mail this to your Division Directors and Section managers.
With a loud voice, maybe we can get the ARRL to work for us instead of
against us:


No more automatic renewals. Individuals must retest and pass all elements
required for their license class.


The passing score for written exams needs to be raised to 85%.


Code elements should be 13 wpm for General, and 20 wpm for Extra.


Make the no-code Tech license one year non-renewable.


sc