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Excellent, thanks for the update.
I have my technicians license now (Needed it for Search And Rescue
organizations I belong to).
But I never went for anything else. Now I can get my general and extra and
use my HAM radio on board.
Hank.
> This item is on the docket at the FCC, as it has support of US ham group
> ARRL, it is expected to pass. It should be a matter of a few months. See
> Below:
>>
>>The FCC is proposing to eliminate Morse code testing as a requirement for
>>any class of US amateur license.
>>
>>In a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) adopted July 15 and issued
>>today, the FCC said that comments already received indicated that the
>>majority of amateurs support eliminating the code test for the General
>>Class license and says that maintaining code exams for Extra Class "would
>>not be in the public interest." The Commission declined to propose any
>>additional changes suggested in any of the 18 petitions received after
>> the
>>International Telecommunications Union (ITU) dropped the international
>>requirement for Morse code proficiency as a condition of issuing ham
>>licenses with privileges below 30 MHz.
>>
>>The NPRM is WT Docket 05-235. Comments may be filed for 60 days after
>>publication in the Federal Register (which hasn't happened yet), with an
>>additional 15 days for reply comments. We urge anyone planning to comment
>>to read the entire Notice before commenting.
>>
>>The complete 30-page document is available in Adobe Acrobat format at
>><http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-143A1.pdf>. The
>>NPRM may also be downloaded in Word and text formats by substituting .doc
>>or .txt for .pdf in the above address.
>
> Lee Haefele
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