[Elecraft] Sad day for amateur radio

[Ian Stirling, G4ICV, AB2GR]

On Thursday 21 July 2005 01:33, Craig Rairdin wrote:

> OTOH I know I'm dangerously close to sounding like an Old Fart. I'm somewhat
> disgusted to think that there will be Extra Class licensees that don't know
> code but will be indistinguishable from me. (At the same time, the fastest
> code test I passed was 13 WPM for my General in 1974, so there are probably
> some 20 WPM Extras out there who can't stand to be in the room with me,
> either.) For this reason I think they should at least change the names of
> the three license classes to "Technician", "Good Test Taker", and "Memorized
> the Answer Key" to differentiate from those of us who passed when there was
> a code requirement. :-)

Hey Craig,

  Look me up, AB2GR .. a beige Extra. :)

Ian, K2 #4962
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