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February 21st 04, 08:20 PM

(N2EY) wrote in
:

In article , Alun
writes:

The FAR is an organisation that raises money for college scholarships
to be paid to licenced hams.

This isn't them. It has six members. Look on eham.net under the
discussion about the ARRL being representative.

That said, do you know what's in their petition. I am curious.

It's 59 pages but it boils down to this, in no particular order:

- Three license classes: Tech, General, Extra. Basically the same test
requirements as today (including 5 wpm code for General and Extra)

- No change to General or Extra privs

- Novices get upgraded to Tech, Advanceds get upgraded to Extra, both
for free (no test).

- Techs and Tech Pluses merge, get all same privileges as listed below

- Techs retain all VHF/UHF

- Techs get 100W PEP on HF on parts of 160, 80, 40, 15 and 10. CW/data
on all those bands, 'phone on 160, 10 and 15.

Basically, they dropped the code test for Tech Plus privileges, added
data on the CW parts, and added a bit of 160 and 15 meter 'phone. Much
less HF than the ARRL proposal, and you need a Tech to get it.

I think the proposal is on AG4RQ's website.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Doesn't sound a likely prosepect