[Boatanchors] know code/no-code

[Ray Friess]

That's what I was going to say..     Why dont we just do away with the 
written test too?  
I'm all for getting more people involved....but what they are proposing 
is akin to letting anyone
who wants to drive without a drivers license...     what the heck do we 
need a drivers license for...
or a pilots license???



telegrapher at att.net wrote:

> A step closer to CB operation on all frequencies below 30 mc.
>
> One of the arguments for no code was "i don't plan on using code".  
> Well i didn't either when i went to get my license back in 1958 but 
> that didn't mean i didn't have to lean it anyway.
>
> Another step closer in the dumbing of America.  We get lazier every 
> day and like the crooked people, will find and do anything they can to 
> get around doing something constructive or furthering their knowledge 
> and skills.
>
> Makes me sick to my stomach!
>
> But maybe we have to live with progress, but it's hard for us who had 
> to learn the trade before we could use it.
>
> Quite evident that it's a money game.  More hams spend more money on 
> new gear and affects the balance of payments and our deficit.  WOnder 
> why China hasn't been in on this radio game.  The money we spend on 
> their goods is used to improve their armaments against us anyway.
>
> Another battle fought valiantly.  We will soon be like KPH and the 
> others.  Wonder how many bootleggers will be around then?  Ha!  They 
> can't catch all of us.
>
>
> Larry
> W0OGH
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