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- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 04:30:11 PDT
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- Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #438
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- Ham-Policy Digest Mon, 12 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 438
-
- Today's Topics:
- Instant Callsigns
- Status of "vanity" callsign proposal?
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- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 21:45:18 GMT
- From: world!drt@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Instant Callsigns
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- Dan Brown (danb@acme.csusb.edu) wrote:
- : Let's see if anyone here cares about anything other than code testing...
-
- : I'd like to see a system implemented where new hams would receive
- : their callsigns immediately (or at least very quickly). Suggestions:
-
- The ARRL proposed something similar to this a number of months ago,
- and it quickly went "thud" with the alluring prospect of electronic
- filing, which would speed things up tremendously - to about 2 or 3
- weeks.
-
- My own pet idea for implementing this is to issue a temporary
- *operator's* permit, and make people find sponsors to allow them to
- use their station licenses - like AB1OM/jnh, if Joe New Ham goes to
- AB1 Old Man to sponsor him. The advantages are easy implementation -
- simply declare CSCE's indicating new license to be operator permits -
- plus anyone who wants to get on the air is going to get a thorough
- personal grilling from the sponsor about operating practice. (Of
- course, it's legal now for one operator to use another's station
- license.) Bingo! Instant operating authority.
-
- -drt
-
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- |David R. Tucker KG2S 8P9CL drt@world.std.com|
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- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 21:48:23 GMT
- From: world!drt@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: Status of "vanity" callsign proposal?
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- Doug Mauldin (gdmauldin@ualr.edu) wrote:
- : Can someone confirm or deny the rumor I heard within the past few days
- : that the FCC has finally gone ahead with a plan to honor requests for
- : specific callsigns ("vanity" callsigns, in yuppie-speak)?
-
- Last I heard, after reviewing the comments they were going to try to
- implement a one-time $150 fee for a vanity call, which makes more
- sense anyway. Doing this requires Congressional action, since the
- only thing authorized now is $7/year. So we wait.
-
- -drt
-
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- |David R. Tucker KG2S 8P9CL drt@world.std.com|
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- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 16:51:39 -0500
- From: news.delphi.com!usenet@uunet.uu.net
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- References <34qa56$d86@crcnis1.unl.edu>, <34qihs$9b7@abyss.West.Sun.COM>, <34rbf6$jun@crcnis1.unl.edu>p
- Subject : Re: Sum'tin for nut'in an
-
- gregory brown <gbrown@unlinfo.unl.edu> writes:
-
- >What is it about _some_ Americans that leads them to believe that the
- >rest of the world has all the resources and opportunities _we_ have?
-
- What is it about some _other_ Americans that leads them to believe that the
- rest of the world does not?
-
- The fact is that many other countries _have_ a growing middle class -- even
- countries like Mexico or India, not to mentionTaiwan or Singapore.
-
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- End of Ham-Policy Digest V94 #438
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