Re: Service with a smile - not

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:13:58 -0000, Pun Krocker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> I also think that the new structure is the way forward, or at least a way
>> forward, as it offers  newcomers a way into the hobby and lets face it at
>> the end of the day thats all it is A Hobby.
>
><curious>
>Was there no way for newcomers into the hobby before?
></curious>

according to RVMJ it was being an SWL (apprentice)

and then you went for the RAE (with/without morse test)


of course b-licensees nowadays conveniently forget that before the
b-licence was invented it was THEORY AND MORSE TEST before you got
any licence