[450] Fwd: ARLB016 FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio Question Pools

[djmay at comcast.net]

It's interesting this just came out today, Vinnie, as I just started putting my nose to the grindstone for my general about 4 days ago.  It seems like maybe you should get it while you can, before something changes. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vinnie Grosso" <vinnie at vinnievision.com> 
To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com 
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:39:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [450] Fwd: ARLB016 FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio Question Pools 

so this opens the door for the NCVEC to add more questions, if they like. And 
to open a new debate like the "code--  no-code" debate. All of it the wrong 
thing for Ham radio.  I think the guy that proposed it, like Some folks, have a 
superiority complex. This is why 11 meters remains so popular.  Also what 
*everyone* seems to forget, is that air waves are "public" and jump across 
boundaries without stopping. 

just my 2 cents 

On 20 Mar 2009 at 15:18, djmay at comcast.net wrote: 

> 
>     Food for thought... 
>     
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>     Subject: ARLB016 FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur 
> Radio 
>     Question Pools 
>     
>     SB QST @ ARL $ARLB016 
>     ARLB016 FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio 
>     Question Pools 
>     
>     ZCZC AG16 
>     QST de W1AW 
>     ARRL Bulletin 16 ARLB016 
>     From ARRL Headquarters 
>     Newington CT March 20, 2009 
>     To all radio amateurs 
>     
>     SB QST ARL ARLB016 
>     ARLB016 FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio 
>     Question Pools 
>     
>     In April 2008, Michael Mancuso, KI4NGN, of Raleigh, North 
> Carolina, 
>     filed a petition with the FCC, seeking to increase the size of 
> the 
>     question pools that make up the Amateur Radio licensing exams. 
>     Mancuso sought to increase the question pool from 10 times the 
>     number of questions on an exam to 50 times more questions. On 
> March 
>     19, 2009, the Commission notified Mancuso that it was denying 
> his 
>     petition. 
>     
>     In his 2008 petition, Mancuso claimed that the current question 
> pool 
>     is too easy to memorize and "that there has been a significant 
>     increase in the number of Amateur Radio operators receiving 
> their 
>     licenses over at least the last decade or more who do not appear 
> to 
>     possess the knowledge indicated by the class of license that 
> they 
>     have received. Most discussion about this topic, both on the air 
> and 
>     on Internet forums, generally refers to these widespread 
>     observations as the 'dumbing down' of Amateur Radio. It has 
> been 
>     widely assumed that the cause of this observed situation is 
> based 
>     upon the subject material addressed by the license 
> examinations, 
>     that the material requirements specified for the examinations 
> does 
>     [sic] not meet some minimum level of knowledge expected by some 
> or 
>     many in the Amateur Radio community." 
>     
>     The FCC pointed out to Mancuso that ea 


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