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solution

to save

face

for

the Commission.

The

ARRL

brass

itself

had long

been

un-

happy

with many

of

the

new

breed

of Hams

and

said

it

had "increasing

concern

...

as

to

whether

the

basic purposes

and

objectives

of the

amateur

radio

service,

particularly

those

relating to

technical

qualifications

and

proficiency,"

were

being achieved.

The

League

claimed

that

many Hams

"just go

out

and

buy

their equipment,

plug

it

into the

light

socket,

connect

an antenna

and

oper-

ate."

All

of

this

was far

below

the

dignity

of the

pompous and

tradition-

steeped

League

exec-

utives, many

of

whom still

live

in

the days

when

operators

wound

their

coils

on

oatmeal

boxes and

put

India

ink on crystals

to

change

frequency.

It seemed

to

them

that

this

would

be

the

right time

to

weed

out these

new ras-

cals

by either

kicking them

off

the air

alto-

gether

or at

least

openly

branding

them

as

second

-class

operators.

The

Plan.

Back

the

ARRL

folks

went to

Connecticut

and

into

the conference

room

for secret

talks.

The result

of

the

brain

-

picking

session

was a

mish -mash

of

ideas

which

had been

previously

rejected

by

the

ARRL

and the

FCC,

only

now

the

plan

was

rearranged

and

dubbed

with the

new

title

of

"Incentive

Licensing."

Worded

in fancy

le-

gal terms,

it

was rushed

down

to the

FCC

on a silver

platter

for prompt

approval.

QST,

having the

uneasy

feeling

that

the plan

might

not

sit too

well

with some

ARRL

members,

gingerly

tried to

explain

Incentive

Licensing

to

its

105,000

reader

/members.

The result

was an

upbeat explanation

intended

to

sell

FEBRUARY

-MARCH, 1967

an

idea

which

had

few

selling

points

(no

mention

was

made

of the

FCC's

inspirational

role

in

its creation).

Stripped

of the

fancy

frills,

the plan

sug-

gests

creation

of a

new

"elite" class

of Ham

license

to

be called

the "Amateur

First

Class

License."

This

license

would

be available

only to

those

Hams

who

had

held an

Ad-

vanced,

General,

or

Conditional

Class

Li-

cense

for

at

least

one year.

To get

the

new

license,

the

Ham

would

have to

take

a

new

written exam

which

would

be

harder

than

his previously

taken

test:

he

would

also

have

to

pass

a

16 -wpm

code

test (existing

General

Class

tests

call

for

13

wpm) . Only

operators

of

this

new

license

class

(or

those

who

held

the

coveted

"Extra

Class"

license,

which is

harder

to

obtain)

would be

allowed

to operate

a phone

station

on the prime

DX

frequencies

below

50

MHz

(160

through

10 meters).

Those

Hams

who couldn't

pass

the exam

would

be

forced

to jam

into a

small

band

of phone

frequencies

or use

CW

(which,

for

all

prac-

tical

purposes,

is

now

obsolete).

In addition,

all phone

privileges,

for

Nov-

ice

operators

(the

2 -meter

band)

would

be

withdrawn.

To

round

the

plan

off, the

FCC

was asked

by

the

ARRL

to devise

"distinc-

tive"

call

-signs

for each

particular

class

of

license

so

that

Hams

would

immediately

be

able

to

ascertain

the

prowess

of

fellow

ama-

teur

operators.

The

Prospects.

The

FCC's

acceptance

of

these

ideas

would see

thousands

of long -time

DX phone

operators

unceremoniously

evicted

from

their

operating

haunts

until (and

un-

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