[CW] [Fwd: Re: Fw: 3600-3700 frequencies]

[Dave]

Ken:

Excellent.  I could not have worded it better.

DEave, W8QW

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
>Sent: Jan 7, 2009 11:35 PM
>To: CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: [CW] [Fwd: Re:  Fw: 3600-3700 frequencies]
>
>I had intended this to go to the list. It only went to one recipient. 
>Here it is, with a few spelling corrections and some additional ranting:
>
>Considering the present day license testing, or really the lack of 
>testing, everyone can be an Extra with very little effort. I guess 
>Novices and Advanced have something to lose by upgrading, a unique and 
>irreplaceable license. Maybe some of them are keeping those licenses for that reason, at 
>the expense of exclusion from some large band segments.
>
>Using our license privileges to operate CW in a nearly vacant portion of the band is 
>not a thinly veiled anything.
>
>I'm not sure a proposal to "regain" 3600-3700 for CW is such a good idea.
>CW is already allowed there. If hardly anybody is operating CW up there, and not because
>it is full of phone signals, then how can we claim we need a change in the rules. It
>seems more like we need a change in behavior and attitude. If we want to use that portion
>of the band let's use it. If we stay crammed into the lower 100 kHz, when our licenses
>allow us to go up to the next 100 kHz, the conclusion could be drawn that we like it that way.
>
>I think band segments reserved for those who have worked to develop their skill, and other
>segments for those who are just learning those skills are a great idea. With no CW testing,
>and virtually no rigorous testing of any kind, there is no way to administer special segments
>for different skill levels. Maybe mode based segmentation is an attempt to accomplish the same
>thing. 
>
>Virtually anyone can be an Extra with a week of memorization. There is no need to ever touch
>a key, a microphone or a radio to "earn" the highest class of amateur radio license now.
>Remember when You could not even take the Extra Class test without having been licensed at a
>lower license class for two years? There was good reason for that.
>
>I'd like to see Morse testing return, and Extra Class sub-bands for 20 WPM skilled OPs. I don't
>believe that is very likely to happen though.
>
>
>DE N6KB
>
>
>
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