[Boatanchors] relicensing NPRM

[manualman at juno.com]

The ARRL has numerous youth activities promoting amateur radio which
seems to be working quite well.
http://www.arrl.org/youth
http://www.arrl.org/youth-news
http://www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup-scr
Many amateur radio clubs also have youth activities. If your club doesn't
have one, start one.

Idiots and fools can be found all over the amateur bands regardless of
amateur radio license class or age.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:31:25 -0400 "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
writes:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:59 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Why not just quite all the pretense, "cut to the chase"
> > and print licenses on boxes of Cherrios?
> > The ops certainly wouldn't be any worse
> > than what I hear on 2 meters.
> 
> Or 75, or 40, or 20, etc etc etc. AM, SSB, CW, SSTV, on and on.
> 
> There have been lids, idiots, and other fools on the amateur bands 
> as
> long as I can recall. Granted, they are in the minority and less
> noticeable than the CB band by virtue of the much lower numbers of
> hams.
> 
> Clearly we're not doing a very good job of attracting new talent to
> the hobby, and the FCC sees this as a viable alternative to letting
> amateur radio die off.
> 
> I'm sure they're open to better ideas that anyone has to offer.
> 
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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