[CW] Re: VE's and the bands

[John Geiger]

ANd given the dumbing down that is occurring and will occur with licensing,
how many HF amateurs will understand bandwidth at all?  At least mode is
understandable to most.

73s John NE0P
CW-Need I say more?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve-W0OOW" <w0oow at piperscreek.com>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 3:12 AM
Subject: [CW] Re: VE's and the bands


> This is most likely true.  Neither the FCC nor the ARRL has thought this
one
> through very well.  Bother organizations tend to think small in my
opinion.
> They appear to ignore the rest of the world.
>
> To top it off the ARRL's proposal by bandwidth now admits that most
stations
> do not have the capability to measure bandwidth.  So now the move appears
to
> be to assign a "clean signal" bandwidth.  Sounds very similar to
regulation
> by mode again.  Maybe we have just come full circle.
>
> I don't know about the rest of you, but I was proud of my novice call and
> license.  Getting the CW speed up for higher level tests was not only
> expected, it was its own reward.  Refarm the novice bands??? @#$@#$@#$#@$
>
> 72/73,
> Steve
> CW - It's still magic !
>
> > When the FCC re-farms the Novice bands, I would predict the
> > Canadian SSB net operations will just move
> > further down the band.
>
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