[CW] A Call to Arms

[Grant Youngman]

i’m on the same page.  For $50 ham radio is going to come to a fiery end?  It’s a tragedy?

$50 is NOTHING compared to what I’ve invested in this hobby over the years.  Or what most of us us have sitting on the operating table, or even bought last week.  Even for a young ham radio prospect, it isn’t much, compared to what he/she will spend on a 2nd hand starter radio or some Baofeng thingie or the latest high end “starter”.   Local ham clubs could set up a fee “scholarship” if it came to that, or an elmer could fork it over.

To be clear,  this is not a political statement about the current head-buttingly divisive political environment.  But I wonder if the same guys who spend all their time on 75 (and 40 and 20), railing against some perceived “socialist” activity elsewhere,  are the least bit concerned  about the fact that without some minimal fee, it’s other tax payers who are funding whatever it costs to administer their license?  Whatever it is, it isn’t zero.

Grant NQ5T

> On Nov 25, 2020, at 10:39 PM, Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I wouldn’t lobby for FCC to charge us a fee.
>  
> But Congress had told them that they should.
>  
> The fee that they have proposed seems quite reasonable, considering that it used to be a lot more in comparable dollars.
>  
> So I am astounded that so many Amateurs are claiming an entitlement to get a free ride.
>  
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
>