What Will Happen To The Code/No Code Debate?

[w1gfh]

The dropping of the CW requirement for amateur license testing seems to be a shoe-in. What will happen to the Code/No-Code arguments in QRZ?

[n2nh]

Obviously you jest. The new No-Code Amateur Exam is just the first of many steps. There will be:

The Test is way too technical.

The Test requires multiple choices (in a society where 2 + 2 = whatever you want).

The Test Requires that you can read.

The Test is too hard - let's move the goalposts in and that way nobody will feel left out. Failure might hurts somebodies feelings.

Hey, CB never had a test and just look at how well it works!

Look on the bright side, all those that will pass this test will be the ones pressing to keep it for the next group and looking down on them when they just fill out a form. It will be funny when someone blows up a 1 Kilo-buck rig with a 12 to 1 SWR and comes to the OF wanting to know 'why?'. Get those stories ready about the birds and the bees, the electrons and the trees...

Personally, when No Test International comes out, I hope to be a charter member... so those old fogeys that insist you need to take an exam can see how we feel.

Et tu dufus.

[ka0gkt]

It all depends, if the predictions of the gloom and doom folks come true and it Amateur Radio becomes an extension of 11 meters, expect the "I told ya so" posts

If the predictions of the Gloom and Doom folks don't come true, The ratio of A-1 ops to Lids doesn't change, expect the "I told ya so's" to come from the no code proponents.

In either event, there will ensue a blast of posts, counter-posts, flames and counter-flames the likes of which hasn't been seen...since the code-no-code debate began.

In the end, there will be a few well reasoned posts on each side of the debate which the other side of the debate is unwilling to accept and a large number of naughty children who just have to get their $.02 in, or go off on tangents against whomever is in political office...or running for political office...or used to be in political office...or who's wife is in political office...ad nauseum.

OBTW, N2NH, I love that NY,NH&H RR Avatar of yours. I may be a Broadcast Engineer, but as a kid, I wanted to be a railroad engineer.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (ka0gkt @ July 24 2005,23:46)]It all depends, if the predictions of the gloom and doom folks come true and it Amateur Radio becomes an extension of 11 meters, expect the "I told ya so" posts

If the predictions of the Gloom and Doom folks don't come true, The ratio of A-1 ops to Lids doesn't change, expect the "I told ya so's" to come from the no code proponents.

In either event, there will ensue a blast of posts, counter-posts, flames and counter-flames the likes of which hasn't been seen...since the code-no-code debate began.

In the end, there will be a few well reasoned posts on each side of the debate which the other side of the debate is unwilling to accept and a large number of naughty children who just have to get their $.02 in, or go off on tangents against whomever is in political office...or running for political office...or used to be in political office...or who's wife is in political office...ad nauseum.

OBTW, N2NH, I love that NY,NH&H RR Avatar of yours. I may be a Broadcast Engineer, but as a kid, I wanted to be a railroad engineer.
GKT

Thanks. I used to be a Broadcast Engineer and ended up doing just about everything else. Still miss it though. Oh well, don't see too many jobs in the field so it's probably back to college...

The avatar came from a fellow Ham & Railfan who saw my MTA Subways Route Circles Avatar (a few weeks ago) and I thank him for this one.
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[K8YS]

new exam:

Enclose 10 Campbell Soup labels, with name and address on a 3x5 card and you will be issued a new no-code ham license.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (K8YS @ July 25 2005,00:03)]new exam:

Enclose 10 Campbell Soup labels, with name and address on a 3x5 card and you will be issued a new no-code ham license.
With secret no-coder international ring.
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[n7wsb]

Option not listed - it will go the way of the tech vs no-code tech debate (which if you've been hiding under a rock the no code techs won by default).

[n2nh]

Wait until you see what's next...

There's always a next. (Wait for the other shoe to drop...)

[ac3p]

Will NCI disolve or will they find a new horse to kill?

I don't know of any organization which having obtained their initial goal ever ceased to exist.

[af2cw]

Quote[/b] ]NCI Board Adopts Resolution Regarding FCC Inaction on Morse Testing

In response to member inquiries and frustration about the lack of progress by the US FCC in eliminating the Morse test requirement, as many other Adminstrations have done following WRC-03, the NCI Board of Directors has unanimously adopted the following resolution:

Be it resolved,

Since the following actions have occured;

1. The FCC has not seen fit to eliminate the amateur radio code test in the U.S. in a timely manner since WRC2003, and

2. The ARRL has proposed only a partial elimination of the code test, in violation of IARU constitutional rules, and

3. NCI, having waited patiently and in vain for FCC action for nearly two years on the issue

4. The U.S. Government, now appears to be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act by not elimating a test which is no longer required under nternational treaty, and which discriminates against those with certain disabilities.

Be it resolved that, if the FCC does NOT take action to propose an NPRM, which calls for the entire elimination of code testing, by July 22nd, 2005 (The date of the VEC conference), that NCI will...

(1) Initiate direct letter writing activity to key U.S. Senators and Congresspersons, by all NCI members demanding action by the FCC, and

(2) Simultaneously initiate direct letter writing by NCI members to FCC Commissioners demanding action on the matter.

Be it further resolved, that this resolution shall be posted on the NCI website within not more than 10 days of adoption, and an e-mail be sent to members informing them of this resolution.



Tell me this doesn't sound like a bunch of children getting
ready to hold their breath until their faces turn blue. #Well,
they got their way so they should be pouring the champaign
now. The above quote is from the NCI website.

[W0LC]

Hard to say. I think once the no-code individuals are upgraded to a higher license (which I am sure is coming) they will quit name calling and whining about the ops that took code tests to get the additional privs, etc. They will be mixed in amongst them, so at that point, everything is rosey again.

There could be some stuff on the air, but I doubt it. Unless they act like idiots or something, but hey, we already have individuals on 2 meters and 20 meters doing that now.

I will continue to work individuals that I choose to QSO with, regardless of background or license class. If you act like a lid on the air, then few will want to work you.

The debate of how it screwed up amateur radio may come back if things digress, but I doubt it. That is, unless the Feds deregulate the hobby even more.

Hard question to answer. I don't have a crystal ball.

[N8CPA]

Easy to see where NCI will go. I don't know whether NCI existed prior to '90. But the age old claim of that side was that they weren't interested in HF--until they got V/U+. Then they claimed they didn't mind a Morse test, just the higher speeds--until just Element 1 remained. Then they went after code itself.

Now they claim they don't mind written tests and they don't want to make CW illegal. And they ask why those of us licensed longer than 15 years are so suspicious.

There's also a social maxim that applies: "What one generation tolerates, the next will embrace." Everyone hearing of Amateur Radio for the first time perceives it out of its historical context. And that becomes their own default paradigm as they get licensed. AR history begins at the moment they first hear of it. So meeting "tough" current standards, they cut newcomers a break. Those newcomers tolerate even lower standards in the newcomers that follow. And the slide continues.

Don't worry, someone is already bellyaching about how tough the Tech test is--I've already read it in another thread. They want it eased so some relative can get licensed. Doesn't that sound like a Part 95 issue? Wait until it merges into Part 97!

[w1gfh]

Well, if there is going to be a Test/No Test debate, let's start it off here and be the first. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Problem is, I don't know anybody who seriously wants "no test". Maybe some ambitious soul should look over the WARC countries and find an example of the easiest ham test, then use that as a basis start lobbying for the US test to be the same.

Come on fellers, you can't let the generalized strife and debate in qrz die out! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[W5HTW]

Will NCI become NTI? (No Testing International) Possibly. Or they may take the interim route of whining for CW to be banned from phone frequencies. I expect that to be their next goal. And, frankly, I expect the FCC to already be considering exactly that.

Yes, this is just a step in the process. There have been many steps, the first of which was when the FCC relegated ham testing to the VEC. Enhanced Novice licenses, and removal of time in grade to test for an Extra were also in there, and certainly ending the Novice license as the entry ticket was a truly major mistake, as it made CB the de facto farm team for ham radio.

The next step depends. On the table, and one which has to be addressed, is the ARRL's Novice refarming proposal. The Novice, now barely in existence, currently occupies space that is much needed now, and will be much more needed soon, for voice operation. It makes no sense to have Novice CW taking 50 khz of active bands. So the Novice band has to be modified. It has happened before, and must happen again.

It is likely, though, that since CW is no longer viewed by hams or the FCC, as a last ditch emergency mode of communication, that the ability to use CW in an emergency to check into a voice net will be deemed unreasonable. Likewise, CW in the digital bands will be deemed not only unreasonable, but unnecessary interference. So included in the next NPRM after this one becomes a law, will likely be a ruling limiting CW to the narrow 'CW bands.' And those bands will undoubtedly be limited even more. This, I believe, will also be the next target for NCI, but my guess is they will be wasting their efforts, as it is likely already in the minds of the powers at the FCC.

There will, after all, be no valid reason for a ham to use CW in the phone bands in an attempt to contact another ham or a net in an emergency, as there will be few phone hams who can even recognize CW, let alone copy it. So if logic prevails, CW will be prohibited except in the specially designated CW bands. And they will be smaller.

Somewhere down the road, the FCC will realize, finally, that this is not a technical hobby, and that hams really contribute nothing to the advancement of electronics or communications. When they do recognize that reality, they will then dispense with the incentive licensing, and establish a single class of ham radio license. The testing requirements will be based upon the rules only, that is, knowing how to remain in the ham band and not to cause interference to non-ham devices or services.

Even that may not be the end of it, but some sort of regulation for us will have to always exist, as ham radio is an international communication media, by technical default. Simply put, our signals cross international borders. That fact may be the only thing that keeps the FCC from removing all licensing for ham radio.

There is indeed, more to come.

Ed

[ab8ma]

Sure wish Kurt Vonnegut were here. He would comment upon the difference between ordinary Ignorance and those who attained Ignorance through much hard effort. Those who "fought for" the dropping of CW as a requirement really earned their ignorance. Bravo.

[N8CPA]

I think nocoders have secret meetings about the next step, and major conventions after each icremental success to discuss strategies for the next complaint. You know, just like we have about the latest and greatest ways to hassle them, and new names to call them.

Speaking of which, I think I'm a little late. I lost the notes from our last meeting, so if someone could check theirs--Is it my day to get on 2 meters and call 'em a bunch of brassophobic wannabes, or is it someone else's turn? I don't want to deprive any Extra of his or her favorite on-air activty.

And could you check the Extra Class by laws for me? If I have to miss my schedule, I don't want to get a notice that my Extra Class high horse has to be euthanized for my dereliction of duty. Please let me know. I take my Extra Class privileges and responsibilities seriously!

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[W0LC]

Probably ought to start looking at taking over the CB band and migrate those folks to HF? Think that is a worthwhile endeavor?

Hi. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[ka5s]

Quote[/b] (w1gfh @ July 24 2005,20:32)]The dropping of the CW requirement for amateur license testing seems to be a shoe-in. What will happen to the Code/No-Code arguments in QRZ?

CW News:
A Petition filed today, 13 November 2009, requests the FCC substantially reduce the power permitted CW operators. Pointing out that the CW mode enjoys some 17 dB advantage in readability over SSB, the "Fumble Fingers Fone DX Association" (FFFDXA) asks that the Commission reduce the maximum RF output on CW from 1500 watts PEP to 30 watts. FFFDXA says that the requirement to use the minimum power needed would be served by doing so. Alternatively, FFFDXA asks that the FCC allow SSB operators more power than is now permitted.

In a separate request, the FFFDXA has asked the ARRL to require 700 stations for CW DXCC, claiming that it is too easy to work DX stations on CW and this disadvantages new operators who do not know Morse Code.



Cortland
KA5S

[K0RGR]

Be very careful what you wish for, folks. I believe it was Sweden that recently eliminated their government-issued ham licenses altogether. I'm sure our BPL companies are just looking at that and salivating like crazy - no more federally-licensed hams to have to worry about! Notice that nobody is talking about protecting 27 Mhz. from BPL?

No, I think we'll see some friction. It will most likely take the form of new Generals getting on 75 meters and being turned away with "No Lids, No Kids, No Space Cadets" until the older generation dies out. There will certainly be horror stories about how the denizens of 27 Mhz. have suddenly found 20 meters (like they haven't been there for 30 years already).

But overall, I think the impact will be minimal, and probably positive in the short run, at least.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (K0RGR @ July 25 2005,14:18)]Be very careful what you wish for, folks. I believe it was Sweden that recently eliminated their government-issued ham licenses altogether. I'm sure our BPL companies are just looking at that and salivating like crazy - no more federally-licensed hams to have to worry about! Notice that nobody is talking about protecting 27 Mhz. from BPL?

No, I think we'll see some friction. It will most likely take the form of new Generals getting on 75 meters and being turned away with "No Lids, No Kids, No Space Cadets" until the older generation dies out. There will certainly be horror stories about how the denizens of 27 Mhz. have suddenly found 20 meters (like they haven't been there for 30 years already).

But overall, I think the impact will be minimal, and probably positive in the short run, at least.
Heck yes. I'm brushing up on my code so I can be where the QRM isn't. The CW portion of the bands. Might just be the best thing that's happened to CW in years. It will be interesting to see just how they get rid of the QRO Maximum power requirement so we can have 50KW leenyars.

Maybe I'll just go back to VOA. I could legally run 3 Megawatts simultaneously out of 38 transmitters there. Legally.

[k6pme]

Quote[/b] (ac3p @ July 25 2005,05:09)]Will NCI disolve or will they find a new horse to kill?
It will morph into No Test International.

[KC9ECI]

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[al2i]

I think jty is practicing code now. He is one of those guys that will spring a 20wpm fist on you the day that he can operate HF.

[al2i]

When code is outlawed, only outlaws will code.

[w1gfh]

Quote[/b] ]What Would Hiram Do?

Hiram would write a kick-ass editorial in QST denouncing "lids and backsliders" who are too lazy to "pound brass 'til their arms break and copy CW 'til their ears ache". He'd suggest anyone popularizing "fone" deserved to be beaten senseless with one of his mysterious tools of torture (e.g. Wouff Hong, Rettysnitch, etc). That's right, at one time the League looked down on "the phone boys" as less-than-hams. Even in the 50's (read any of the old ARRL operating handbooks) they strongly suggested that any ham worth his salt worked CW 90% of the time and checked in to the National Traffic System daily.

Hiram is spinning in his grave right now, along with Marconi and Tesla.

[ab8ma]

Hate to ask this but --- anybody read "Cat's Cradle"

Sure wish Kurt Vonnegut were here. He would comment upon the difference between ordinary Ignorance and those who attained Ignorance through much hard earned effort. Those who "fought for" the dropping of CW as a requirement really earned their ignorance. Bravo.

[N8CPA]

Quote[/b] (ab8ma @ July 25 2005,19:21)]Hate to ask this but --- anybody read "Cat's Cradle"

Sure wish Kurt Vonnegut were here. He would comment upon the difference between ordinary Ignorance and those who attained Ignorance through much hard earned effort. Those who "fought for" the dropping of CW as a requirement really earned their ignorance. Bravo.
"See the cat? #See the cradle?"

"All of the true things I'm about to tell you are shameless lies."

No, I'm not a Bocononist (sp?). But I suspect the founders of NCI are.

[AK7V]

I think deregulation will probably be forthcoming.

[KI4FCP]

you forgot one, the FCC saves big $$$$ by selling off our bands, and reducing there labor force. Cuz if i was them and boards like this id think why do waste our tax $$$$$ catering to a bunch of whinny babies fighting over there toys in a sand box. Keep it up guys and it will happen, you must think the goverment cares, well they dont.

[ky5u]

What would Hiram do? Lock and load hopefully!

[kf4lne]

Lock and Load?! Does that mean I can break out my APRS guided missile now?

[KG4CGC]

Why do we even need a test? Quit crying and start buying!

[ae1x]

Quote[/b] (n2nh @ July 24 2005,22:43)]Obviously you jest. #The new No-Code Amateur Exam is just the first of many steps. #There will be:

The Test is way too technical.

The Test requires multiple choices (in a society where 2 + 2 = whatever you want).

The Test Requires that you can read.

The Test is too hard - let's move the goalposts in and that way nobody will feel left out. #Failure might hurts somebodies feelings.

Hey, CB never had a test and just look at how well it works!

Look on the bright side, all those that will pass this test will be the ones pressing to keep it for the next group and looking down on them when they just fill out a form. # It will be funny when someone blows up a 1 Kilo-buck rig with a 12 to 1 SWR and comes to the OF wanting to know 'why?'. #Get those stories ready about the birds and the bees, the electrons and the trees...

Personally, when No Test International comes out, I hope to be a charter member... so those old fogeys that insist you need to take an exam can see how we feel.

Et tu dufus.
Friend,

The international regulations require that all administrations determine the competence of its radio amateurs. A form only admittance would not meet this requirment and would serve to destroy the service and its unique place in the spectrum. It would really become a CB band.

What could be done is to permit all electronics graduates to receive a license on demonstration of sufficient regulatory knowledge. Any competent technician or engineer should be able to obtain a license in this manner since they already have demonstrate they have the ability make a contribution to the service.

No test = No HR

Ken

[W5MJL]

All it would take is for the WRC to say testing is no longer necessary. #Can it happen? #Of course it can happen, and you can easily find ways to justify it.

Why do I need an electronics knowledge when I will send my radio out to be fixed anyway? Or it can be I don't have the necessary equipment to work on surface mount technology.

Why do I need to learn antenna theory when I can just buy what I need?

We are only a short step away from no testing.

[W2FHO]

ham radio is turing into another cb, radio.the code is whats makes ham radio.:angry:

[w5ljm]

Take away the code, they'll want amateur license eliminated. Again the old saying "give an inch. they'll take a mile."

[KC9GUZ]

I think the whole deal will either die off/cool off or either it will keep on going in a vicious circle.
Ive talked to a few of my locals and they told me that back when the codeless tech lisence was adopted the same thing went on then. I wouldnt know. I wasnt into ham radio then, but everyone though it was the end of ham radio and that ham radio would turn into another form of CB. But alas, it hasnt!
I seriously dought that ham radio or HF ham radio will ever go down the stool like CB has because of all the self policeing and the OOs that are out there listening to help "keep it clean".

73.s KC9GUZ

[w8amd]

It will be here for years. We have examples to look to. The advent of the Tech ticket without code still stirs folks. Heck we still hear about the advent of incentive licensing! Buckle down for the ride boys and girls. This one is fresh. She's got at least 30 years on her.

[G8ADD]

This thread and the whole code debate strikes me as just another futile excercise in paranoia.

Here its happened and past. Did the sky fall? No. Did swarms of CB style appliance operators with no operating ability descend onto the HF bands like a plague of locusts? Only in the same proportion that they had existed on VHF/UHF. Has the general level of UK operating deteriorated? You tell me, the skip won't let me hear it.

I'll tell you what did happen. A bunch of operators with up to forty years of weak signal operating experience plus experience in making their own rigs, antennas and test gear were given the opportunity to adapt their skills to a new medium. They encountered gross overcrowding, poor operating, deliberate QRM, gross rudeness and quite unbelievable noise levels such that they had never met up with before. Some went back to the silences and gentlemanliness of VHF, others adapted to the new challenges and started to make their mark on the bands. Some have even gone back to working to master CW that they had not bothered with before, having had other fish to fry. You've probably met up with them already, though I wager you will only know it if you know how to read the callsigns.

For my own part, after forty years of weak signal work on VHF and UHF, I am relishing the involvement with the interaction between the sun and the ionosphere; I am starting to feel the Earth as a single entity rather than the more piecemeal modes that I am used to. I don't feel that I am a useless parasitic wannabee riding on the backs of my superiors but I do feel that I am a small part of an international brotherhood. I am meeting and relishing new challenges whilst observing what I see as the spirit of ham radio. Of course I could have done all this forty years ago simply by putting my back into learning CW but I didn't, I was following a different path that was more interesting to me then.

When you meet up with your home-grown no-coders on HF, you will find some wasters and a whole load of guys that will soon start to impress you. Be ready to welcome them, because they, too, will have a vested interest in maintaining standards.

73

Brian G8ADD

[kj3n]

Quote[/b] (G8ADD @ Aug. 24 2005,06:17)]This thread and the whole code debate strikes me as just another futile excercise in paranoia.
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[W5MJL]

Quote[/b] ]Here its happened and past. Did the sky fall? No. Did swarms of CB style appliance operators with no operating ability descend onto the HF bands like a plague of locusts? Only in the same proportion that they had existed on VHF/UHF. Has the general level of UK operating deteriorated? You tell me, the skip won't let me hear it.


Brian, you guys don't have near the illegal CB operation that we have here in the US. You also don't have tests where ALL OF THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS are supplied in advance.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (w5mjl @ Aug. 24 2005,11:01)]Quote[/b] ]Here its happened and past. Did the sky fall? No. Did swarms of CB style appliance operators with no operating ability descend onto the HF bands like a plague of locusts? Only in the same proportion that they had existed on VHF/UHF. Has the general level of UK operating deteriorated? You tell me, the skip won't let me hear it.


Brian, you guys don't have near the illegal CB operation that we have here in the US. You also don't have tests where ALL OF THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS are supplied in advance.
Yep. We know what happens here on "CB". Wait until they hit the bands. I feel very sorry for what is about to happen to amateur radio should they get loose. At least we know the worse case senario. Maybe someone should get a sample of Channel 19 in a large city at 5:15PM...

[G8ADD]

Dam' right we don't have much of a CB problem; the legal CB band is pretty well moribund and there are very few illegals to hear. This is hardly surprising, to the general public ham radio is old-fashioned and nerdy, whereas CB is frankly risible. In an age when you can't walk more than a few paces down the High Street without having to dodge some loud-mouthed loon gesticulating into a mobile phone, whilst every kid carries one as if it is a piece of costume jewelry, what on earth do they need CB for? Any mention of CB now either gets a bewildered stare or ribald comments about Smokey and the Bandit or Convoy.

In a word, it's dead and stinking.

That is why my comments were addressed mainly to your apparent fears that letting your no-code HAMS onto HF would lead directly to a catastrophic decline in standards. Of course, my comments are based on the assumption that your VHF/UHF people are of similar quality to our now subsumed "B" license amateurs. That seems reasonable to me, do you have reason to doubt it?

It would be interesting to know why CB in either its legal or illegal manifestations has remained so healthy in the USA when it is dead in the water over here, or perhaps it is in decline over there, too, but you haven't noticed it yet.

73

Brian G8ADD

[wk3c]

Quote[/b] (kg2hg @ July 25 2005,08:20)]Quote[/b] ]NCI Board Adopts Resolution Regarding FCC Inaction on Morse Testing

In response to member inquiries and frustration about the lack of progress by the US FCC in eliminating the Morse test requirement, as many other Adminstrations have done following WRC-03, the NCI Board of Directors has unanimously adopted the following resolution:

Be it resolved,

Since the following actions have occured;

1. The FCC has not seen fit to eliminate the amateur radio code test in the U.S. in a timely manner since WRC2003, and

2. The ARRL has proposed only a partial elimination of the code test, in violation of IARU constitutional rules, and

3. NCI, having waited patiently and in vain for FCC action for nearly two years on the issue

4. The U.S. Government, now appears to be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act by not elimating a test which is no longer required under nternational treaty, and which discriminates against those with certain disabilities.

Be it resolved that, if the FCC does NOT take action to propose an NPRM, which calls for the entire elimination of code testing, by July 22nd, 2005 (The date of the VEC conference), that NCI will...

(1) Initiate direct letter writing activity to key U.S. Senators and Congresspersons, by all NCI members demanding action by the FCC, and

(2) Simultaneously initiate direct letter writing by NCI members to FCC Commissioners demanding action on the matter.

Be it further resolved, that this resolution shall be posted on the NCI website within not more than 10 days of adoption, and an e-mail be sent to members informing them of this resolution.



Tell me this doesn't sound like a bunch of children getting
ready to hold their breath until their faces turn blue. #Well,
they got their way so they should be pouring the champaign
now. The above quote is from the NCI website.
So, what's wrong with an organization adopting a resolution to mobilize its members to progress the organization's goals?

Did you expect NCI to quietly wait forever?

I note that the FCC adopted the NRPM on July 19th.

Would you want your ARRL Directors to be afraid to take action to represent the ARRL's membership's interests on issues? (If not, why to you attempt to ridicule the NCI Board for being prepared to act on behalf of its members?)