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Ham license issue
Larry,
Does that mean that my Advanced Class License, altough current is no longer valid? Check your facts. MY Advanced Class still is valid and I can continue to renew it, but no new tickets are issued. Iv'e read your posts for some time now. You seem to talk too much and have little meaning. Maybe your new hobby can be blogging your way through cyberspace. KJ5DL |
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"Leonard" wrote in
oups.com: MY Advanced Class still is valid and I can continue to renew it, but no new tickets are issued. Iv'e read your posts for some time now. You seem to talk too much and have little meaning. Maybe your new hobby can be blogging your way through cyberspace. KJ5DL Advanced is grandfathered because they don't know quite what to do with it. I was an advanced for years and years waiting for the 20 wpm code to go away and got Extra in that little intermediate period after they dumped the fast code test but before the new Extra test came out that was longer. As of now, they are saying they'll renew your Advanced as long as you like....but, of course, the FCC has a long history of reducing the staff loading when it suits them or the money pit runs low. That could change. They should have just sent you a new Extra License and done away with this nonsense. What little meaning about this subject did I not make clear? The ARRL business, and that's what it has become...a magazine company selling products...hasn't been a member-controlled ham club since I was a kid. Don't think so? Go to a "club meeting" and raise your hand in Newington. Don't forget to wear those IBM suits the "upper class" always wears to hamfests to look more important than the rest of us...(c; Angered at my poking a stick at his alma mater, an ARRL official at the Sumter Hamfest threatened to have my ham license revoked in front of many witnesses. He lost it. I told him when HE or the ARRL could have my ham license revoked, I'd gladly take it to the new FCC office in Newington and hand it in voluntarily. What's membership up to now? 20%? 25%? ARRL can kiss my ass....just like always. -- Larry |
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Larry wrote:
What little meaning about this subject did I not make clear? The ARRL business, and that's what it has become...a magazine company selling products...hasn't been a member-controlled ham club since I was a kid. It is an economic matter with the ARRL. Where would they generate their income if all those test publications and CD's were made obsolete? That said, I agree completely with your observations of the ARRL's bad influence on ham clubs and amateur radio in general. -- Skipper |
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Skipper wrote in :
It is an economic matter with the ARRL. Where would they generate their income if all those test publications and CD's were made obsolete? That said, I agree completely with your observations of the ARRL's bad influence on ham clubs and amateur radio in general. I don't fault ARRL for becoming a business. But if a business is to "represent" ham radio, then, why not Icom or Kenwood or Yaesu or soem other ham business. ARRL says it's a ham club. Ham clubs survive without becoming business or publishers or magazine companies. That's what dues are for....dues that give members CONTROL of the club. Once Icom ad revenues overcome club dues, the club becomes an arm for the manufacturers to move product, which is what the ARRL is all about. |
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Larry wrote:
Skipper wrote in : It is an economic matter with the ARRL. Where would they generate their income if all those test publications and CD's were made obsolete? That said, I agree completely with your observations of the ARRL's bad influence on ham clubs and amateur radio in general. I don't fault ARRL for becoming a business. But if a business is to "represent" ham radio, then, why not Icom or Kenwood or Yaesu or soem other ham business. ARRL says it's a ham club. Ham clubs survive without becoming business or publishers or magazine companies. That's what dues are for....dues that give members CONTROL of the club. Once Icom ad revenues overcome club dues, the club becomes an arm for the manufacturers to move product, which is what the ARRL is all about. OK, so WHEN is the change going to happen? Any idea? |
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Howard Peer wrote in
ervers.com: OK, so WHEN is the change going to happen? Any idea? None. The FCC wheels grind painstakingly slow, as any government bureaucracy does so one cannot be blamed if things go aground... -- Larry |
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