[Uram-rejections] Young licence holders - what's your opinion?

Sun Apr 23 12:03:00 BST 2017

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> From: Huge <Huge at nowhere.much.invalid>
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> Subject: Re: Young licence holders - what's your opinion?
> Date: 23 Apr 2017 09:44:54 GMT
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> On 2017-04-22, DXY's Midnight Runner <144mhz at privacy.net> wrote:
> > Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.not.these.five.words at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> On 22/04/2017 13:23, Stephen Thomas Cole wrote:
> >>> Following the news of George M0UKK achieving the Full licence at 9 years
> >>> old, and having seen a couple of negative reactions to it in "the other
> >>> place", I'm curious what the broad opinion is, do many of us think that
> >>> there should be a lower limit in age to hold a licence? Personally, I think
> >>> there shouldn't be, if a kid has the energy, wit, and wherewithal to bone
> >>> up and pass the exam then they should be welcomed with open arms! There's a
> >>> couple of licenced youngsters (an 11 year old and a 15 year old) at my
> >>> club, both of them are sharp as tacks and a pleasure to work on the air.
> >>> Frankly, the hobby needs more of them!
> >>>
> >
> > There are youngsters coming though all the time. Some of us had to start
> > at the comparatively late age of 16, although that was just the one RAE
> > exam and a morse test. There also used to be a minimum age limit of 14
> > before a licence could be issued.
> >
> >> 
> >> Young children at junior school will not yet have covered the
> >> minimum of mathematics needed to solve resistors in series / parallel
> >> arrangements, and certainly not resolve or understand impedances,
> >> and therefore IMHO are not competent to be issued
> >> with licences.
> >
> > Doesn't the fact that they have passed the exam(s) and in particular the
> > advanced one mean they have proved their competence?
> 
> Precisely. There is one and only one definition of what a radio amateur
> is; pass the RAE. All the other "definitions" are just fevered fantasies
> in the minds of people who are likely not as grown up as that 9 y/o and
> any comments thereon should be directed at whoever makes the rules.
> 
> 
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