[CW] QRM and Technician License Expansion

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It did not fail.  Thousands use the incentive to upgrade over the years, until someone got it in mind that they were being left out, because they refused to go in and take the next test.  That was the failure. 


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> On March 18, 2019 at 12:37 PM "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
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>     Technicians have CW privileges on 80, 40, 15, and CW, Data, and SSB on 10M as well as lots of VHF and UHF privileges.
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>     http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Tech%20Band%20Chart/US%20Amateur%20Radio%20Technician%20Privileges.pdf
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>     But they don't know Morse which is the source of most objections.  Many new General Class amateurs don't know Morse either, and they figure that if the digital mode isn't printing on their screen, they're not causing interference.
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>     I'm not going to figure out if Incentive Licensing of 1967 was a failure or not.
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>     73
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>     DR
>     N1EA 
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>     On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 12:13 Bruce Prior < n7rr at hotmail.com mailto:n7rr at hotmail.com > wrote:
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> >         Granting some limited HF voice and digital privileges to Technicians is long overdue. The problem is that Technicians and higher-class licensees seldom talk to each other, either on the air or in person.
> > 
> >         After they get a taste for HF operating and new activities like SOTA and POTA, many Technicians may upgrade to General Class. The General Class test is not markedly more difficult than the Technician one, but many Technicians don't feel motivated to make that move because they haven't experienced the thrill of HF operating. Remember that General Class operators have access to all Amateur Radio bands. Only on 80 m, 40 m, 20 m and 15 m do Amateur Extra Class operators have more spectrum than Generals do. Some of those new Generals may then become curious about that CW thing. As long as they learn Morse code by sound rather than by those pesky dot-dash charts, they will progress quickly into the CW world.
> > 
> >         73,
> >         Bruce Prior N7RR
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