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On Feb 20, 6:03�pm, John Smith I wrote:
Dee Flint wrote: * ... Individuals are VEs not VECs. *Organizations like W5YI, ARRL, and others are VECs. Dee, N8UZE Dee: As always, you are exactly technically correct. ...to PAST definitions...which are NOT quite definitions in the official sense but rather "CW" (Conventional Wisdom). In the FUTURE (which happens right after everyone reads this) there may very well be whole VECs which do NOT (gasp!) have morsemen requirements! Ahem...FCC 06-178 is the revolutionary decision which is bound to upset many applecarts, rending of garments, applications of soot, gnashing of teeth, etc. Woe! (sort of rhymes with "sow") Skies falling, etc. The FCC *created* both VECs and COLEMs...just as they UN-created code testing for amateur radio licenses in the very, very near future...like Friday. :-) A "No Code VEC" in the future? Why not? To those who say "NAY! NEVER!" I award the venerable "cat-ass-trophy." LA If the nice ladies in my Catholic Altar Society, the ones who do all the nice bake sales, wine tasting organizing, flowers, etc.--they would make a good example of what would constitute a good VEC, for just "another example." JS |
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