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Not worthy to be an Extra?
On 10/5/2014 5:31 PM, Howard Lester wrote:
"Foxs Mercantile" wrote And thanks for bringing to *my* attention that there *were* extra privileges at one time for Extras. There still are. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Hambands_color.pdf I didn't think I had to explain myself so explicitly.... I *know* there still are; I *am* one. I meant that I didn't know there were additional privileges for the Amateur Extra Class in the era before the portions of the 1950's and 1960's when there *weren't* any additional privileges. There may also be some confusion about terminology. Jeff pointed out that in 1923 they created an "Amateur Extra First Class" license, but also, in 1933, they went to A, B, and C, dropping the "extra" name. So then there was no "Extra" by name, until the 1951 reforms which also btw created the Novice and Tech. That "Amateur Extra Class" had no on-air privs. Incentive licensing in 1967 then reserved some bands for Extras, other for the revived Advanced (including old grandfathered ones), that had been General bands. Extras also were eligible for 1x2 call signs, which IIRC were sort of randomly assigned at first, then the "pick your own" program started. That's how I got k1io -- First they gave PYO to people who had been Extras for a while, then to less-of-a-while Extras, and finally to anyone with an Extra. That's when I took the Extra test and got my first choice. Since district 1 is relatively unpopulated, I don't think anyone had held the call previously -- the K2xx series had been given out back in the 1940s, but 1-land moved more slowly. |
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