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

[Vinnie Grosso]

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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