[Boatanchors] American paper ham ticket fades into history

[Rob Atkinson]

The paper ticket you can get if you request it will be printed on
regular paper with some kind of "watermark," which means it won't be
all that distinctive and will be a piece of cake for someone to fake.

How many OTs will know about this option or exercise it?

It might not be so bad if they continued to use the old special paper
they used to print the tickets on but they said that paper costs
something like six times more than regular white recycled paper stock.
I wish Congress would give the FCC a budget they can afford to operate
on so they can print tickets, and hire people to enforce the laws and
give tests.

Another unreported downside is that a lack of a paper ticket will
continue the slide of the FCC "presence" in the minds of new hams,
making them even more of a non-entity, thereby helping to create the
landscape of an "anything goes" spectrum for those who learned how to
operate on "freeband."

This slide began when they quit giving the license exams and
continues.  FCC?  What's that?  I got an email from someone telling me
I have a license, whatever that is.

Rob
K5UJ

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:27 AM, K5MYJ <macklinbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> When does the FCC plan to put Ham Radio licenses on the back of cereal
> boxes?
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
> To: "Boat Anchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 6:18 AM
> Subject: [Boatanchors] American paper ham ticket fades into history
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>> Let's welcome the latest boatanchor unobtainium, the paper license you
>> used to put on the shack wall:
>>
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-paperless-amateur-radio-license-policy-goes-into-effect-on-february-17
>>
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
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