[Clinging Bitterly]

Surely you know of sources other than this forum wherein you may find answers to your several questions. If one didn't have reason to believe otherwise they might think you a troll. Read:

http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Documents/cfr/1998/47cfr97.pdf

Meanwhile,

You know what's in the cup. Drink.

[nathanbedford]

This is a political forum not a ham radio forum. We are not all enthusiasts. You brought up the matter of your obtaining a license and I congratulated you for it. I asked very legitimate political questions on a political forum to which I have not yet received an answer for the most important: upon what basis are licenses allocated and therefore the right to use the public's airwaves?

Why in the hell is it so difficult to get the answer from all you experts? is the allocation process fair? Is there a quota system, if so what is it based on? do the tests relate to a real and practical technical need? Did the Morse code tests when they were used? these are fair political questions which do not by their nature or by the mere fact of posing them denigrate your technical achievement.

Instead of answering these questions every expert who has replied has for the most part simply talked around them. Now you give me your backhand for a troll and serve up a photo of a coffee cup which I can only understand to be some form of condescension. You give me lengthy regulations instead of answers and do not even have the courtesy to cite the relevant paragraphs.

Why do I get the impression that ham radio is some sort of elitist cabal which gets prickly when the public asks you to account for what you all are doing with the public's airwaves?