Yes, I agree that the aims behind amateur radio are broadly the same as when it started, but pretty much everything else has changed.
> So what you said to me makes no sense?
Your opening statement was that you thought amateur radio will be dead in 50 years. I said that you could play a part in making sure if doesn't, if you were so inclined. Which part made no sense to you?
> Unfortunately none of what you listed appled to my taking of the RAE which happened in May 1970
Some of it applies - notably that today's amateurs have to be assessed on 20 practicals to confirm competancy to operate on multiple bands, use multiple modes, and to construct and test.
I'm not sure when C&G changed to multi-guess, but I'm assuming in the 1980s. Regardless, you presumably acknowledge that, at least for the last 20 or so years of RAE, the standards/requirements were demonstrably lower than today.
Are we now done on this thread?
Pete M0PSX
Pete M0PSX