[Johnson] FCC NPRM

Anthony W. DePrato wa4jqs at mikrotec.com
Wed Jul 20 23:43:56 EDT 2005


At 10:10 PM 7/20/2005 -0400, peter markavage wrote:
>WA4JQS said: "BUT requiring it has been the dividing line between  the
>good buddies and amateurs."
>
>Who in the world defined this "dividing line"?

IT was set in the 20's when the public was wanting to put the amateurs off 
the air.


>WA4JQS said: "so now we are going  to just  give the ticket away..."
>
>They just took away the code test requirement; it's not the end of
>amateur radio testing requirements.

good nite Pete what testing ?  grab and old arrl book from say 1962 and 
look at the general test then look at the new extra test.
todays extra is about like a novice of 62.

73 Tony


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