[CW] QRM and Technician License Expansion

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Ron,

FCC took the bottom 25 kHz which is prime DX area away from General
licenses in 1968.

So your reason to work DX on the low end of the HF bands WAS the incentive!

That's why I upgraded from General to EXTRA in 1967.  I disliked the
cutting up of the bands and creating ghettos of license classes. I thought
Novice bands were a good idea, new Morse operators, crystal controlled with
75 watts input power.

Being a Novice with the big N in your callsign was bad enough!

73

DR

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 21:32 Ron Youvan <ka4inm at gmail.com> wrote:

>     N7DC at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>    I think the idea of taking privileges away (from Generals) and making
> them re-available (with others) was a very bad idea.
>    It left a bad taste in my mouth.  There are lots of reasons to
> upgrade, one is to work DX, I don't know how upgrades can be attributed
> to the incentive program.
> --
>    Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
>                  Every action results in unwanted side effects.
>
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