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Harvey Heagy <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 3 Jun 2013 23:13:12 -0500
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This guy sounds like a real loser.  It is my understanding that the FCC at 
one time allowed us to take the first class license, but then changed their 
mind.  In the early 70's, there was a woman named Mary Jane Keener who lived 
in Iowa at the time who wanted to take it.  The NFB was trying to help her, 
and among other things pointed out that there were blind people who held the 
first class license for a long period of time.  When the FCC threatened to 
revoke all those outstanding first class licenses is when they filed suit 
and eventually won.  Of course that was in the days when the NFB was truly 
an advocacy organization before it attempted to redefine advocacy for its 
own purposes and began worshiping the federal goose that laid the golden 
egg.
Harvey 

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