[BC] Re: No Code

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

So, does that mean if, in a year or two, I get off my butt, study and 
pass the General written exam and upgrade without code, that I am any 
less of a person? Any less of a ham? Who are you and your ensconced 
brethren of the HF bands to judge my character? Like I stole my license? 
If those of us who follow in the years to come are subject to hard 
feelings and are not welcome in the ham community, why should we bother? 
The hobby will die off with the old brass pounders and the Commission 
will give the allocations to someone who will use them, and pay for them.

Douglas Pritchett
KB9TKP (not a vanity call either, it's all I've got)



Clay Freinwald wrote:

>Once again the FCC has elected to devalue the licenses we worked hard to
>obtain.   My trusty old First Phone with Radio Endorsement hangs on the
>wall as a reminder of when you had to know how to draw schematics.   My
>Extra Class ham ticket was devalued a while back with the advent of the
>'Extra-Light'...Now the CW requirement goes away as they continue the
>trend.
> 
>Got my FCC licenses the hard way and still proud of it.  And - no - my
>Ham Call is not a vanity call.
> 
> 
> 
>Clay Freinwald, K7CR, CPBE
>Entercom Corporate Engineering
> 
>Home- k7cr at wolfenet.com
>FAX - 206-726-7073
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