On Feb 28, 2:30�pm, wrote:
On Feb 26, 12:02�am, wrote:
On Feb 25, 6:45 pm, wrote:

I think the Tech/Tech Plus total serves a useful purpose,
because it is an automatic license class change upon
renewal.

"Tech+" was dropped some time back, is not recognized at FCC as a
license class,

This is not exactly correct.

FCC records still distinguish between Technician and
Technician Plus. When a Technician Plus is renewed as
a Technician, the "former license class" says "Technician
Plus".

and as of 2/23/07 there is no distinction in privileges
or any other practical difference between it and plain old "Tech".

There's no distinction in privileges, and in a few years there
won't be any difference in name, either.

*A Tech is a Tech is a Tech.

* * Wasn't the point of Jim's segregation of those numbers to show the
distinction between coded and non-coded licensees, Hans?

No, it wasn't.

When FCC stopped issuing new Tech Pluses, and began renewing all
existing Tech Pluses as Techs back on
April 15, 2000, it was no longer correct to say that
all Techs weren't code tested. So that wasn't why I listed
them separately as well as combined.

I listed Techs and Tech Pluses separately because:

- that's how FCC lists them in the database
- it documents the numerical decline of the Tech Plus as a separate
license class due to renewal, upgrading and attrition
- at some point, the number of Tech Pluses will drop to zero,
and listing them separately shows that event approaching.

The main reasons I have posted, and will continue to post,
the ARS License Numbers is so that interested folks can
watch the trends, and so there will be a consistent record
available to all with Usenet access, for as long as those posts are
archived.

73 de Jim, N2EY