[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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