On Sep 19, 2:03*pm, AJ Lake wrote:
wrote:
AJ Lake *wrote:
The treaty applied to 30MHz and below.
No, it applied to 1000 MHz and below
back when the Technician was created

Do you have the sources?

Look up the results of the various World Radio Conferences down
through the years. A good starting place would be the 1947 Atlantic
City conference.

The QST archives are useful if you're a member of ARRL.

I couldn't find anything but 30MHz.

You need to look further back than the 1980s.

But I'll
stand corrected since you're certainly the undisputed historian here.

Works for me!

What mode would a 1950s or 1960s ham use for moonbounce? Aurora?
Meteor or tropo scatter? Satellite comms?

CW was the best weak signal mode in those days. Your point?

That if a license is supposed to be about experimenting, and Morse
Code/CW is the best mode to use for much of that experimenting, it
made sense to require a basic Morse Code test for that license.

You can just imagine the reaction from hams who'd worked hard
to get
their Advanceds or Extras, then suddenly found the HF 'phone
bands flooded with Generals and Conditionals who had the same privileges..

Probably like having the HF frequencies flooded by no-coders... 8-O

No, much worse.

Ouch. I guess you don't like no-coders on your HF bands.

Actually I don't think the 5 wpm Morse Code test was too much to ask.
But that's ancient history now.

What I was saying was that the Class A/Advanceds, and the Extras, of
1952 had been led to believe that the investment they had made in
earning those licenses would continue to be paid off by having more
privileges. All the FCC actions up to that time indicated it.

But at the last minute the FCC did the opposite.

If I were made boss, the maximum power allowed for any class
would be 100W.

How's anybody gonna work EME with that?

EME is possible with a 100 watts. But CW ain't up to it. It takes
digital signal processing...

Actually that's not true. Hams have done EME on microwave frequencies
with less than 100 watts and CW. But it takes a high gain antenna.

But the Class A didn't disappear. In the 1951 restructuring,
it was renamed "Advanced",

In a prior post you said the Tech+ will "disappear" because it will be
renewed (and thus renamed) a Tech.

That's right. It's been happening since April 2000.

Now you say the Class A *didn't
disappear* when it was renamed as the Advanced. Can't have it both
ways...

There's a difference between a class disappearing and being renamed.

When the last Tech Plus either expires or is renewed as a Tech, the
Tech Plus class will have disappeared, having been merged with the
Tech. Just like what happened to the Conditional class back in the
late 1970s.

But the Class A/Advanced folks were and continue to be kept as a
separate license class.

73 de Jim, N2EY