[CW] Leave no ham behind

Donald Chester k4kyv at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 28 10:51:41 EDT 2005


      Joe ignored the fact that the no-code license brought
> > new blood into the hobby after the amateur ranks had been
> > shrinking for many years.  He refused to notice that after the
> > FCC created this new license category, the number of active hams
> > increased at a dizzying rate.


That's just not true.  There was a brief upsurge, but things quickly settled 
back down to about where they had been, just as with Novice Enhancement and 
the more recent universal 5 wpm code test.  So far, none of the attempts to 
create a vast influx of newcomers to amateur radio have succeeded.

If the no-code NPRM passes, I predict the same thing will happen again.

Don K4KYV




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