(Michael Black) wrote in
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"KØHB" ) writes:
"amateur" wrote

Does this mean the guys that have the basic qualification now would
have to go back and rewrite to get HF privilege ?

Not in most cases.

As I read it, you are authorized HF access as of today, without
further testing, if...

1) ...you got your Basic certificate before April 2, 2002.
2) ...if you got your Basic certificate after April 2, 2002 AND at
a score of 80% or higher.
3) ...if you got your Basic certificate after April 2, 2002 at a
score lower than 80% AND pass a 5WPM Morse exam

If you have the advanced license, that also gives you HF privileges
with this new change.

The retaking the test is only if someone didn't receive the 80% pass
mark but want HF and fits none of the above four possibilities.

The RAC bulletin reads like only if you were licensed before April 2,
2002 that you automatically get HF privileges. But on reading the
Canadian Gazette entry on this,
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/inter...n/sf08435e.htm
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it seems less clearcut.

They start off with the bit about before April 2, 2002:
(2) Amateurs certified prior to April 2, 2002 will be allowed
to operate in the HF bands below 30 MHz based on the
experience and knowledge they have acquired over this period of
time.

But then further down:
Amateurs holding a Basic Certificate who have been certified for
at least three years will automatically receive authority to
operate in the HF bands. This is based on the rationale that
three years of experience will have allowed the amateur to
acquire sufficient experience to operate proficiently in the
HF bands. Amateurs who received their Basic Certificate within the
three year interval prior to the date of the new standards will be
required to prove that they had attained a mark of at least 80%.

Those two paragraphs don't fully mesh. The first is a hardcoding of
a date, but the second suggests that all one needs is a 3 year waiting
period. I'm not sure which takes control.

Michael VE2BVW



As I understand it, the original proposal required an Advanced or 80% in
the Basic, but records of pass marks don't go back all that far, hence the
cut off date to avoid unfairness to anyone who can't find out their pass
mark. Then it sounds like they tacked on the three year clause which makes
that date irrelevant!

Vive la Canada!

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