"THE OTHER SHOE HAS DROPPED"

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I had my suspicions about sinister motives when the FCC dropped the CW requirement, but I never, N-E-V-E-R would have imagined what is to come for the Citizens Band.
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From a post on the FCC website (recent news) I read that the FCC was going to add the CW requirement to CB licensees! My first thought was: "Who in the bloody Hell thinks up these proposals??"
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But then, logic set in....."Uncle Charlie" has been trying to kill 11meters almost since it's inception (and they created it), so what better way to do this than require that all CB users pass a CW test. Apparently they realize that they can't stop the tide of "10m radios" with am-fm-ssb and CW, so they thought "Why not put that to use?" and indeed they will. This will accomplish two goals:

1. Get rid of 11 meters
2. Increase Amateur Radio licenses (as they no longer have the CW requirement). Yes - the buck was passed to us.

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They are apparently mulling over standard license fee's again (back to the $20/license), and several other vague, foggy notions that they aren't willing to put to press as of yet. I'll be following this closely (you can too) to see exactly what will happen when the dust settles....well, anyways, may you all enjoy this first day of the fourth month of the year!!

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WOODY

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