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Welp, I think I'm going to try to get into the new group and beat the
drum of "One Amateur Radio, One Amateur Radio License." Jim had his
heart set on "more license classes" when we had five of them. I'm
going to see what I can do about making it one license class, or at
worst, one full class, and one learners class.


I think it would be an excellent subject for debate.

To me, it seems that two classes would be appropriate: General and Extra.
I think this will actually become the de facto structure as we move forward
anyway and have mentioned this before.

It is not unreasonable for the prospective ham to study both the Technician
and General material and take both writtens at the same time. This is
actually what I will be suggesting to those that I help prepare for the
licensing tests. While there is some material that is unique to each
specific test, there is enough overlap that it would be reasonable for a
candidate to prepare for going straight to General. In time, I think it
would be reasonable to make the Technician a closed license class and merge
the question pools just as they did when they closed the Advanced class and
merged the question pools for Advanced and Extra back in 2000.

Dee, N8UZE