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BOOO!!
RAC's BANDPLAN
READ ABOUT THE RAC PROPOSAL FOR A 12 HOUR COURSE OF STUDY HAM LICENCE
RAC CALLS IT A "FOUNDATION LICENSE"
YES I AGREE IT IS A 'FOUNDATION'
THE 'FOUNDATION' FOR A DISASTER
RAC PROPOSES THAT YOU CAN BE A RADIO AMATEUR IN CANADA AND ONLY TAKING 12 HOURS TO DO IT
GET YOURSELF A 100 WATT RADIO & A 1000 WATT AMPLIFIER
FREE GIVEAWAY HAM TICKETS REQUIRING ONLY 12 HOURS OF STUDY
CALLING ALL CB'ers
CALLING ALL CB'ers
COME AND GET 'EM!
WILL BE SENT TO YOU IN IT'S OWN
PRESENTATION BOX SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
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THE "NO STUDY" AMATEUR RADIO
LICENSE THAT RAC
WANTS INDUSTRY CANADA TO ENACT
Its express purpose (pun intended)
is to produce a new class of people with access to our Amateur Radio Bands
who have nothing more
than a "No Study" 12
HOUR course ae their knowledge base.
These 12 hour WONDERS will have a 100 WATT valid Amateur Radio Amateur License.
They will enjoy all the same privileges that you and I have.
They will infringe on our Hobby with no more qualifications than those possessed by MOST CB'ers.
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR WHAT THE AMATEUR BANDS WILL SOUND
LIKE
IF RAC PUSHES THIS 12 HOUR NO STUDY LICENSE ABOMINATION
THROUGH INDUSTRY CANADA?
WELCOME TO RAC's REVISED AMATEUR COMMUNICATIONS 12 HOUR LICENSE
IT RECENTLY OCCURRED TO ME THAT IF RADIO AMATEURS OF CANADA COULD ADVOCATE THAT ANYONE COULD BECOME A RADIO AMATEUR WITH ONLY A 12 HOUR COURSE OF STUDY
THEN..........................
PERHAPS WE COULD EXTEND THE BRILLIANCE OF THAT IDEA
TO OUR MILITARY - OUR POLICE - OUR FIRE-FIGHTERS - OUR DOCTORS - OUR PARA-MEDICS
LET US ACQUIRE MORE MEMBERS OF THESE SERVICES AND PROFESSIONS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC NEED
HOW ABOUT A 12 HOUR COURSE OF STUDY TO BECOME A PARA-MEDIC ?
HOW ABOUT 36 HOURS FOR A POLICE OFFICER OR AN ARMY COLONEL?
HOW ABOUT 24 HOURS OF STUDY FOR A MEDICAL DOCTOR ?
HOW ABOUT 36 HOURS FOR A SPECIALTY SUCH AS A NEUROSURGEON OR A CARDIOLOGIST ?
PERHAPS 18 HOURS FOR A DENTIST ?
C'MON FOLKS LET US GET ON BOARD HERE
WE SHOULD SUPPORT RAC IN ITS NOBLE ENDEAVOR TO PUT MORE BODIES BEHIND AMATEUR RADIO MICROPHONES NATION WIDE
AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WITH AS LITTLE STUDY AS POSSIBLE!
WHILE WE ARE AT IT LET US ACQUIRE ALL THE NEEDED ADDITIONAL MEDICAL & SECURITY EXPERTISE
WHICH OUR COUNTRY IS IN SUCH DESPERATE NEED OF.
LESS STUDY MEANS MORE RADIO AMATEURS MORE DOCTORS AND MORE NATIONAL SECURITY
MAYBE RAC COULD OPEN A MEDICAL SCHOOL OR AN ACCREDITED UNIVERSITY?
NOW WE ARE ONTO SOMETHING BIG EH?
The RAC FOUNDATION LICENSE
OR
How to Dumb Down The Canadian Amateur Radio License
Along with all current Canadian
Amateurs.
The shit has finally his the fan and I for one am disgusted.
Here are links to the RAC report on its FOUNDATION LICENSE survey.
1. BJ. Madsen - VE5FX - from Tisdale, SK -
Chairman
2. Brian Jackson - VE6JBJ - from Airdrie,
AB
3. Jim Anderson - VE6JWA - from Edmonton,
AB
4. Howard Dickson - VE1DHD - from Seabright,
NS
5. Neil Carleton - VE3NCE - from Almonte,
ON
6. Earle Smith - VE6HD - from Grande Prairie,
AB - RAC President and ex officio member
Also offering to help out:
7. Jim Dean - VE3IQ - from Ottawa, ON - retired
RAC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
8. Richard Ferch - VE3IAY - from Ottawa, ON
- RAC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
I AM SURE ANY OF THESE GENTLEMEN WOULD APPRECIATE
HEARING FROM YOU ON THIS MATTER REGARDLESS OF YOUR POINT OF VIEW.
Read on.
If you do not read it you will regret it as it proposes
changes which can and will effect your Status as a respected Canadian
Amateur.
It goes without saying that RAC has disgusted me on
many fronts and in many ways for a very long time.
The Straw that broke the Camel's back is this "study"
to reduce the
Canadian Amateur Radio License into a glorified CB
License.
Not just a 4 watt CB license but a 100 watt CB license.
Through a clever and craftily worded survey RAC has
finally produced a Report
on how it intends to pursue this travesty to the structure
of Ham Radio Licensing in Canada.
Its express purpose (pun intended)
is to produce No Study 12 HOUR WONDERS who
will enjoy all of the same privileges that you and I have.
They will infringe on our Hobby with no more
qualifications than those possessed by a CB'ers.
I am not inclined to give you a blow by blow word by word critique of the results of this survey.
Read it.
It speaks for itself.
If you want to know why it will hobble you and ruin
your
reputation as an Amateur you will have to read
the results of the Survey.
This will take a little effort on your part but no
pain equals no gain.
Once you start reading it and seeing the percentage
style Bar Graph answers it will
not take long before you see the tricks RAC has woven
into the loaded
questions it used to create this so called survey.
I will summarize it by saying that the recommendations
made in
the report call for a License based on over simplified
course of study and testing.
They want to give away Amateur Licenses to people who will only have to make the most MINIMUM of effort to acquire them.
It calls upon other Amateurs (THE REST OF US) to act
as Monitor Stations of these new Class of Licensees.
We are supposed to Mentor them and see that they obey
all the rules and regulations.
How are we supposed to teach someone anything about radio or electronics over Ham radio when they do not have any of the motivation, knowledge or skills to begin with.
Will we as Canadian Amateurs be issued with a Course
Syllabus and Instructors Manual by RAC or Industry Canada?
Will we have a set of Guidelines so that we may address
the course material in a timely and orderly fashion.
How did it suddenly become my job and yours to be
teachers and Mentors to people who were told that:
WITH NO WORK - NO STUDY - NO EFFORT - you are now a Radio Amateur go out and buy your 100 watt Ham Radio today.
What makes you think they will be motivated?
How about you "no Study wannabees" learn in accordance with something that closely resembles the current Basic License Study course.
Then you get an Amateur Radio License.
Do not suggest to me that you will learn after you get one of RAC's Cracker Jack prize GIVEAWAY LICENSEE.
In the meantime these no study 12 HOUR WONDERS will
enjoy all of the same privileges
that you and I have and they will infringe on our
Hobby with no more qualifications than those possessed by a CB'ers.
There is a proposed time period for this Class of
License to be Valid before it must be upgraded or it will expire.
If any or all of these proposals make it through Industry Canada to a final approval we will all become by "default" less than we were as Amateurs PRIOR TO THAT.
I have a few simple questions for RAC or for anyone else.
1. If RAC cannot find people to stand for Elected Office throughout Canada how will they find all the MONITOR Stations they will require to "police" this new "half breed" of "dumbed down" licensees.
2. What are the qualifications MONITOR STATION
will require to do
this work?
3. Who will "monitor" the monitors?
4. Who will collect the Monitor Station reports and evaluate them?
5. Who will give a passing Grade to these new licensees.
6. Who will certify a Licensee as a FAILURE and require him/her to be re-tested.
7. Who will do the initial test or a reset?
IT IS GIVING ME AN ADMINISTRATION MIGRAINE THINKING ABOUT IT!
RAC IS ALREADY THE MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION IN CANADIAN
AMATEUR RADIO CIRCLES
HOW WILL RAC GET ITSELF ORGANIZED FOR THIS TASK?
SIMPLE ANSWER IS:
IT WONT!
IT CANNOT GET ORGANIZED ON ANYTHING ELSE SO HOW WILL
ADDING TO THE WORK LOAD BE A SUCCESS.
IT WONT!
RAC's PROPOSAL FOR A FOUNDATION LICENSE IS A TRAVESTY
RAC cannot currently find volunteers for their own needs to fill numerous vacant positions
How will they find persons willing to undertake these
new MONITOR responsibilities.
Maybe they will pay them with your money.
This entire Foundation License proposal is an insult to our intelligence.
It lowers the Standards across the board for all existing Amateurs.
There is no way you will ever get me to call these Cracker Jack prize winners Amateurs
I'll call them CB'ers but not Hams
It will wash away any pride you may have had
in the hard work and study
that was required of you to become a Radio Amateur.
This Report and the initiative it proposes to undertake should be sent out to the side of the curb along with the rest of the Trash.
RAC is uniquely capable of producing trash in copious
quantities
This is one load of crap that I do not want dumped
on my Amateur Radio doorstep by RAC's self serving Executive Board.
You men at RAC should be ashamed to have authored this garbage idea.
Now you are attempting to pass it on to us as "our new job" with your under the table tactics.
I do not work for RAC now!
I will never do work for RAC !
Kill this FOUNDATION LICENSE
proposal!
Before it Kills us!