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Jeez. Answering a question with a question, hmmm... Aint broke means exactly what it says. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.

Does your car get you where you need it with no problems? Then "It aint broke". There is nothing wrong with the licensing requirements for US hams. It aint broke. <-----Context.

The only reason I ever hear for doing away with the morse code requirement, is, what is it good for why do I have to know it, I don't want to know it, etc., whining etc.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to figure out that, I don't want to (learn cw), cry cry, sounds like a little kid throwing a fit.

What does changing the licensing requirements have to do with promoting amateur radio? I have never heard, seen or read anything anywhere that says how easy it is to get a technician license (and no, it's not called a no-code ticket). I was licensed in 1993 and still, to this day haven't seen any major advertisement about how EASY it is to get a Tech ticket. I sure wasn't snagged or enticed from the CB to get my tech license by an advertisement. Where's the marketing? Not on CBS, NBC, etc. Not in the LA Times. Where? QST? CQ? CQVHF? Doesn't count. Those are ham rags. What will happen if we make the extra ticket as easy as a tech? I'll tell you.

All existing hams will run down to their local VEC and pay $6.50 and become extra's.

Why bother restructuring at all. Let's follow in the footsteps of our Liberal brothers and just make it a big free-for-all, like graduating EVERYONE from high school whether or not you can spell "IT" let alone read what I just typed. Hidden under the guise that it's not fair or I just don't want to or we don't want Johnny to grow up feeling like an underachiever. Cause to quote Slick Willy, "I feel your pain"! Waaaa!

You can quote statistics all you want. The chances of someone winning the lottery is pretty darn slim as is someone dying while skydiving, but, it can happen. Tell the person that wins $30million in whatever lottery that he can't have it because statistically he can't win. Statistics don't tell the whole story.

Doomsaying seems to be the way of the world nowadays. Knee jerk reactions based on un-facts, half-facts and un-truths(read lies). If it isn't global warming today, it's global cooling tomorrow. If it's not that then DDT or alar will kill us all. Poppycock.

Sounds like the new reason to change ham licensing is because the sky is falling...

The sky isn't falling and the world is not going to come to an end.

Let's see or at least hear some idea's and advertisements for promoting Amateur Radio BEFORE we consider tampering with what exists NOW.

It still aint broke.

Have a nice day, Dan KF6A...