Asking membership for inputs on actions that affect the entirety of the US
ham population - now that IS a good idea.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark n2qt
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 5:42 PM
To: Peter Laws ; RTTY contest group
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Contest QRMing of other digimodes (ARRL BOD)
Too late that train has already left. This is from the last Executive
Committee minutes.
9.1.3. At Minute 37 of the July 2014 Board Meeting the Executive Committee
was directed to study the addition of specific data privileges in narrow
segments of the 80, 40, and 15 meter bands for Technician licensees. After
extended discussion of the pros and cons of the proposal, on motion of Mr.
Lisenco the Executive Committee voted to recommend that the Board consider
soliciting input from the membership on adding data privileges for
Technician and Novice licensees in their existing 15 meter subband.
Mark. N2QT
On Jan 7, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Mark n2qt <n2qt.va@gmail.com> wrote:
RM-11708. There may well also be discussion over the BoD comments
related to new
Technician class digital mode privileges.
As an aside from your aside, this last bit strikes me as silly and
says to me that the ARRL needs to appoint Yet Another Ad Hoc Committee
to study license classes. If you are going to give Technicians more
and more privileges, then why to we have the Technician class?
Because if we're going to have an entry-level license that gives a
"taste" of everything (like the Novice class, c.1991 after Novices got
phone on 10) and we expect that to give hams "incentive" to upgrade,
then why do we keep giving the entry-level more privileges?
Make the General test 50 questions and be done with it. Give half of
each band segment to the Techs and let them get to Amateur Extra to
get the other half. Or else deprecate Technician, re-instate a new
Novice class with (roughly) the old Novice privileges (maybe a little
more stuff above 50 MHz but not 144 or 432).
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Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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