XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: headstone255.but.not.these.five.words@yahoo.com   
      
   On 28/04/2018 14:56, Alan wrote:   
   > Roger Hayter  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>> Yes, standards are now more strict in the UK than under RAE   
   >>   
   >> No they're not!   
   >   
   > To be clear, I was comparing today’s FULL licence to the 1990s Full RAE.   
   >   
   > Yes, Foundation is pretty basic - no argument there, but getting a full   
   > licence is harder than under RAE   
      
   There has never been a problem for the genuine candidate for _REAL_   
   amateur radio to educate himself to the required standard merely because   
   of his own technical enthusiam.   
      
   CBers-masquerading-as-rad-amateurs may be a separate can of worms,   
   however, and the more difficult it is made for them, the better.   
      
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