>On Wed, 04 Dec 1996, Dan Keefe <KS6Z@sprynet.com> wrote:
>>Dear Bob,
>>
>>The entry level class is called a Novice license.
>>
>>Take the time to listen on the forty meter novice band sometime. There
>>are no novices there to work. It used to be jammed every night with new
>>hams.
>>
>>Ninety five percent of No Code tickets don't upgrade and spend all their
>>time talking about the best way to get the HF bands opened to them.
>>
>>This was a bad decision by the ARRL and there is now no way to remedy
>>it. If you really wanted to be a ham you would not have been too
>>inconvienced by a five word per minute code test and not needed special
>>consideration to avoid any investment of your time.
>>
>>I wonder if you now think it would be a good idea to end all upgrade
>>classes and turn the ham bands over to the no code techs. How does that
>>strike you?
>>
>>Dan Keefe KS6Z
>
No, Dan, I don't think it's a good idea to turn the bands over to them.
But I think if there was a small area of HF set aside for the no-coders, that
perhaps THAT would then give them a taste of HF and they would then upgrade.
I let any of the no-coders in our area come to my shack to try HF, and out of
about 7-8 of them that have come over a few times, I think half of them have
upgraded to General or higher.
Was the novice ticket the answer? Is the no-code Tech the answer? I relly don't
know Dan, but the times are changing, and maybe classes need to be changed.
Maybe we should just leave everything the way they are....
Happy Holidays.....Bob
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