FCC Report and Order Posted on New Rules

The funny thing...that I am sure that new people....will realize...they will have a small segment of 10M..to do SSB Phone...that is fine...but when you are a TECH upgrade....you have CW...alloted on bands..so my question is....if they want the CW gone for testing to be on HF...are you going to use CW....so CW..is not going away....just the requirement..I am No-Code Tech....just passed element 3....and planning to go upgrade...

Here is what I think.....that the new to be HF operators(like me)....should
have skills...and though it will be opening up...to the no-codes and
such...they need to take responsibility....this is not a duck
shoot/open season...but a very serious thing....and not taken
lightly...

I passed my Element 3....I still plan to learn and use CW...inspite
of the change...I am a tech now....but as a to be new person to
HF....we do need to demonstrate..like in other countires when they
dropped the CW...I can understand things change with time and we
progress...and the new ones like me need to be held
accountable....and just because we are handed this with little
effort...we need to thank the other operators who paved the way and
worked very hard for this....

Again I am very greatful for this...though CW is learnable....it
will take time..and I want to be responsible...for this
privlidge....I am looking forward to this...I do plan to use CW..and
I can see why it is used in many ways..I apoligize for those who can
be jerks...and not see the picture and I can see those who feel it
will be CB radio...

Ok new ones or to be new ones...we need to show respect and earn
this...and not take advantage....inspite being easier...THX DE
KE7GGV-AAR0AJ..

73 TO ALL...

gaules@comcast.net

Gerald Gaule
73..KE7GGV/*AAR0AJ/T(tech)-Gerald R.Gaule Albany Oregon
145.290(-) (no tone)-WA7ABU Repeater
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Subject: FCC Announcment

Washington D.C.-

It was announced today that Kellogg's and the Federal Communications
Commission
have signed a pact to issue Amateur Radio Licenses on specially
marked boxes of
Corn Flakes.

In this unprecedented move the FCC believes this will not hurt
amateur radio but
allow all individuals to receive an amateur radio license without
having to
demonstrate any skills with the exception of being able to use a
pair of scissors
to cut out their operating permit from the breakfast cereal box.

Kellogg's spokesperson commented that they were proud to have been
selected by the
government to be the issuer of licenses for amateur radio in the US
and hope to
soon make an agreement with other cereal loving countries. They also
expect that
will be issuing certificates of achievement for DXCF for confirmed
contacts with
100 corn flakers...or should the CSCE..be printed on Cracker Jacks boxes...LOL...KE7GGV...

 

heck i know of many cbers and other non licensed operators that as of january 2007 are going for their ham test joy

 

Personally I think it is far overdue. I have been waiting 30+ years for it. My Uncle and I started out in CB long ago. Back when you could talk to Europe on 5 watts. He went on to become an extra, 20+ wpm CW. Me, I could never learn it. It all sounds the same to me. Don't even dare try and tell me I didn't try. 30 years I tried, and he tried to help also. All kinds of different methods, so called sure fire ways. I am an industrial electrician by trade, work on all kinds of PLC's, PC's, radio controlled automated equipment. I am also a former flight medic with a medivac company. I was also in Nuclear Weapons Electronics in the service. I know how to study. Code is the only thing I have never been able to master.

But that is all in the past now. I will be getting my general soon......and my extra. I have been in electronics since the 60's. I know theory, built radios, fixed radios.

I consider this a wonderful christmas present from the FCC. THANK YOU!!!

Oh, and BTW, there were lids and bad hams on 80 meters back in the 70's too. You OF's that make out like it was all peaches and cream back then just fooling yourselves, but not those of us that have been listening for 30+ years.

 

After all these different threads on the subject, there clearly is nothing intelligent left to say either pro or con.

Any further comments serve only to demonstrate how oblivious you are!

 

To all you pro-code testing ARRL members, I found this part of the new FCC order to be very interesting:

 

I would like to add that with this recent R&O released today - U.S. hams are currently in the media spotlight being "watched" by the outside community.

Let me give an example:

A non ham from a popular computer nerd website commenting on the recent news:

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"Radio hasn't ALWAYS fascinated me, but growing up with those cheap toy walkie talkies and watching my father with his radio equipment, my eyes have opened to the fact that even the regular consumer headsets at Radio Shack were peanuts if you devoted time and money to something like that.

After I turned to wireless Ethernet, I really got excited to the possibilities of radio. Now that a requirement like this has been dropped, I've become more motivated to getting a license. However, I don't know where to start. Where WOULD I start if I wanted to get a license and, more importantly, the knowledge of radio?"

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No not exactly a "CBer" and I suspect we will be seeing more interest expressed like this in the near future.

Perhaps, this should be a reminder that as ambassadors representing our shared interest, we should conduct ourselves appropriately.

73

 

not bad - 2 more in 5 minutes!
anyone else?

 

Really? I happen to know a lot of CBers too and NONE of them would touch the Ham bands with a 10 foot cattle prod! They're quite happy where they are. They have anonymity, freedom to do and say what they want, no rules, no consequences. Hmmm, wait a minute. Come to think of it, what am I doing here?

 

That is the best Post I have seen, WELL DONE

 

Any intelligent living people out there?
Do you people even bother to read what has been said multiple time before.?

 

SURE!!!!! LOL But everyone has their opinion on it and like to express it.

 

well////there is the choice of what to do
with the on/off button ......
i say ON for now to see how it goes's
73 see you on hf or vhf/uhf bands

 

Wrong. I think everyone showed their true colors.

The OF's who whined, and the anti-coders who showed complete disrespect and arrogance were a complete disgrace to what I thought was a really gentleman like hobby.

But in spite of this, I plan to go on, business as usual. I already passed my two code tests, and for that achievement I am at peace with myself.

 

Silly question, since we already had codeless licenses for 15 years now, and really easy 5WPM code for 5, why only now are they interested in becoming hams?

 

Not really put to bed, but more or less ignored by the FCC.

Remember that the FCC decisions are just that, a human decision made by humans. They can interpret the comments and the hobby any way they see fit.