[KYHAM] Re: Here come the Attacks!

[Anthony W. DePrato]

At 02:41 PM 1/23/2004 -0500, wa4qal@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>But, where would I fit in?  I'm an "Extra-lite", having upgraded after the 
>change
>to 5 words per minute?  Does that mean I fall into the General category?  But,
>I was an Advanced before I upgraded!  I don't want to lose what I had.  The
>Advanced class written test was a lot harder than the General class written
>test (I seem to remember that it used to be the same as the Extra class
>written test at one point.), so why should those Generals get the same
>privileges I have when I had to take a lot harder written test?  Or, would
>Advanced class be "grandfathered" into the Extra bands?  But, won't this
>upset some of the "real" Extras who passed the 20 word per minute code test?
>
>Ok, I'm being slightly facetious.  But, the point I'm trying to make is 
>that there
>isn't any way to be perfectly fair to everyone without erring one way or the
>other, or without imposing an incredible paperwork load on the FCC.  And,
>I think the better way to err is to grandfather certain classes up to higher
>privileges, rather than taking away something that someone had.
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YES if you read it you will see that you get what you have earned.. the FCC 
does not do the paper work anyway the VE's and the VEC's do 99% of it. the 
FCC puts it into the computer system and a call is issued or and upgrade.. 
so it is really just a slight bit more work for them.
this is the only way i can see that it would be as fair as possible to all 
. the ARRL SURE is not fair or going to be fair.. you will have less upset 
by this. then any other outline i have seen so far please anyone have a 
better ideal lets hear it.
no complaining just come up with something better please.
yes it does make subbands but what ever we have them now except for CW 
which is the only mode that can be used on any freq we have.
the ARRL is working on a subband by bandwith not.. just wait till you see 
their ideals.. HI HI..

if you reread this it gives the novice room in the tech band. phone
it give a no code ticket with hf
it gives general and advanced more phone freqs, yes give another 25 or 
50  khz to the advanced class in the gen/adv subbands
it gives the extra phone more freqs that they like the rest have earned.
same thing for CW ops..
the faster you code speed the more freqs you get.. NO CODE well they did 
not what to learn it anyway so they have no room to grip.

what is all this just the same thing that the ARRL came out with in 1968 
and pushed on us. EXCEPT it is fair too all. except for the fact 
before  1968 a general had all the freqs . but that is pasted history and 
we MUST go forward as so many are saying .
well this is about as forward as you can get IMHO. without giving away 
freqs to those who have not work for them..
  73 Tony