In article t, Bill Sohl wrote:
Auto upgrade Technician and Novice to General
Wrong. The auto upgrade is Tech only to General.
Novice stays as Novice.
Auto upgrade Advanced to Extra
Create a new no-code beginner class with limited HF priveleges
Which is what the existing Novices go to.
oops, you are correct, my error.
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RM-10869 K4SX Petition
Retains no-code Technician as is
Retains 5 WPM General
Not likly.
Increases Extra class to 13 WPM
Never happen
Agreed, this one just makes things more complicated, but then this is the US
government we are talking about, so who can tell...
no mention of Novice or Advanced class elimination
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RM-10870 NCVEC Petition
Essentially the same as the ARRL petition, but removes the code
requirement
for Extras also.
Also includes a "commercial only" transmitter rule for
Communicator (Novice)
Also includes power limit for Communicator/Novice
The same power limits are defined in the ARRL proposal also. The 100/50 watt
limits proposed are set so they would be below the RF environmental
evaluation required levels.
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FWIW, I think the best possible result would be a combination of the ARRL
and AG4RQ versions -- merge Novice and Technician classes and priveleges.
Drop the code for General. Upgrade Advanced to Extra, and keep 5 WPM for
Extra.
I expect to see the ARRL petition win out, but they'll
lose on keeping any code. The code war was lost and
so noted in 98-143 R&O (6 years ago). Nothing
has changed, nor has there been any new arguments
that have been made to retain code testing at all.
That's what I expect to happen also, although I think that the merger that I
mentioned above would keep more existing (coded) hams happy. Personally I
see no real reason to keep any code testing requirement.
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Alex / AB2RC
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