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[Michael Wilke]

Charlie,

I`m afraid you`re right. I remember back in the mid-sixties when the CB
band was a fairly well-ordered and courteous place. Sure would hate to see
ham radio go that route...

73,

Mike  WB4AQL




On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:08 PM, CL in NC <mjcal77 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >From a previous fellow:
> "Most if not all General class amateurs from 68' on back are still pissed
> off at that (*^&^$^%*&^# ARRL and FCC for rolling back considerable
> privileges to I think what they are today. That was a significant loss and
> it really hurt."
>
> Please don't forget Wayne Green of 73 magazine and the fellow whose name
> and company escape me now that sells code courses and testing manuals that
> was heavy into removing CW as a test element.  Keeping the code or removing
> it, is fodder for a big argument, the new codeless hams don't understand
> what the fuss is about, and the coded hams can just listen to the bands and
> come to the conclusion things seem a bit more volatile than the old days.
>  One thing for sure, it ain't going back, and with the FCC track record
> with CB radio, the next step will probably be a testless license
> application in the box with a transceiver.
>
> Charlie, W4MEC in NC,
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