Check out this link. The UK is now moving to a lifetime license
http://www.rsgb.org/news/lifetime.php
Dave
WA3MKB
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From: "AD5VJ Bob" <rtnmi@sbcglobal.net>
> I am not privy to the UK and where they have gone. What are you alluding to?
>
> 73 fer nw es gud DX,
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> Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM)
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>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> > [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > d.e.warnick@comcast.net
> > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 4:45 PM
> > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
> >
> > I agree. That's why I stated that we could not have changed
> > it, but I still feel that our voices should habve been heard.
> > You're right on the future. Just look at there the UK has
> > gone. Sad, but the times, they are a changin'.
> > Dave
> > WA3MKB
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: "n4dsp"
> >
> > > WA3MKB,
> > > Nice post and but I have to disagree with you on one point.
> > You state
> > > that the amateur radio operators who failed to write the FCC
> > > unintentionally allowed the removal of the requirement of
> > Morse Code
> > > from all license class examinations is inaccurate. The truth of the
> > > matter is the FCC had an agenda and no matter if 99% of operators
> > > expressed their opinion of retaining the Morse Code requirement it
> > > would not have mattered. Look at the route other countries
> > throughout
> > > the world have gone. One does not have to look past
> > Washington to see
> > > the lack of leadership in these matters. Case in point-BPL.
> > > Also it is my opinion, and please note the word opinion,
> > that within
> > > 20 years there will be no examinations whatsoever. Just pay your 20
> > > dollars with your completed application. If these guys can push
> > > through no code then it makes everything else much easier.
> > Just look
> > > at the VEC examinations and how much of a joke they are. A
> > person can
> > > memorize the answers in 3 weeks and pass the Extra test with flying
> > > colors. I know people who have done it but that will also
> > be a bygone era.
> > >
> > > 73
> > > john-n4dsp
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From:
> > > To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2006 12:44 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thank you KC4ATU. You have echoed the feelings of
> > thousands. Every amateur
> > > > operator who did not want to see the code dropped, but
> > who did not write
> > > > the FCC, at the urging of a very hard working ARRL, has
> > unintentionally
> > > > allowed this to happen. We could not have changed it
> > anyway, but our
> > > > voices should have been heard.
> > > > So what can we do now? Continue to operate CW as we have
> > in the past.
> > > > Enjoy it and show the world that it is still a viable
> > force in our
> > > > communications.
> > > > That's it. Let's focus our energies in the positive side
> > of things. The
> > > > ARRL has done a heck of a lot to keep us informed of what
> > is happening and
> > > > to enable us to operate at all
> > > >
> > > > WA3MKB
> > > >
> > > > -------------- Original message --------------
> > > > From: "bill rowlett"
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> >From: "AD5VJ Bob"
> > > >> >
> > > >> > So tell me something:
> > > >> >
> > > >> >I am a member of many many lists on Yahoo and have not
> > caught up reading
> > > >> >all of them today because of this news that the ARRL
> > > >> >dropped the ball on Amateur Radio again.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >Not one response that I read so far, was in favor of
> > this move on any of
> > > >> >those lists.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >So my question is:
> > > >> >How about we form a League of some kind that will
> > protect and represent
> > > >> >our
> > > >> >interests as LICENSED Amateur Radio Operators?
> > > >> >
> > > >> >Sounds like the unlicensed folks have their League
> > already, we just pay
> > > >> >for
> > > >> >it annually.
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> This has been coming for many years. You and I have had
> > ample time to yet
> > > >> the FCC know how we feal about it. The international
> > community has gone
> > > >> this
> > > >> route and now so do we. The ARRL was not behind a total
> > elimination. They
> > > >> wanted to retain it for Extra Class, so get off the lets
> > bash the ARRL.
> > > >> They
> > > >> are not correct all the time and neither are you or me,
> > so cool it with
> > > >> the
> > > >> bashing, grow up.
> > > >>
> > > >> When CW was droped from the shipping industry and from
> > the military, the
> > > >> hand writing was on the wall. Freight trains are hard to stop
> > > >>
> > > >> What now, USE it, be EXCITED about it, and TEACH it. It
> > will last as a
> > > >> mode
> > > >> of operation, AM is still here.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> 73, KC4ATU
> > > >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >> > > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> > > >> > > [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > Douglas Shock
> > > >> > > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:55 PM
> > > >> > > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> > > >> > > Subject: Re: [TenTec] [Fwd: FCC ELIMINATES CW EXAM]
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > what a shame
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > On 12/15/06, Ken N9VV wrote:
> > > >> > > >
> > > >> > > > Looks like it is for real!
> > > >> > > >
> > http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf
> > > >> > > > de ken n9vv (old CW Dinosaur)
> > > >> > > >
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