Bill Sohl wrote:
"N2EY" wrote in message
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Alun wrote in message

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VK is abolishing code testing effective January 1st. One more down...

How many down - and how many to go?

73 de Jim, N2EY


What difference does it make? The number of countries that
have ended or are scheduled to end code testing can
only increase. Not a single of those countries is ever
likly to change back (IMHO).

So I ask again, what difference does it make?

Alun enjoys tweaking us evey once in a while. Just innocent fun, I guess.

- Mike KB3EIA -

On 20 Nov 2003 09:56:38 GMT, Alun wrote:


I am not sure you are entirely right, Paul. Where reciprocal agreements
are in place, someone with the stipulated class of licence will be able to
operate with the agreed priviledges, regardless of how they obtained the
licence (saving any nationality or residence restrictions, or limitations
on using a reciprocal licence to gain further reciprocal priviledges).

If the Morse test is abolished in one's own country, and you obtain a
licence without passing a code test, you will be able to operate HF in
countries that honour your licence under a reciprocal agreement, even if a
Morse test is still required in that country.

I hope you are right.

However, do you have any concrete examples about this ?

At least the IARU seems to be quite cautious in their statements:

http://www.iaru-r1.org/overseas-licences.html



CEPT 1/2

Once their licence no longer says class 1 or class 2, I assume they would
get class 1 priviledges, even if the national rules of where they are
going remain unchanged and there is still a Morse test there.

Based on my experience with the HAREC 12/5 WPM transition, I would be
quite sceptic about that, but if you have any observations, I would be
very interested to hear about them, so that I could inform hams
planning to go abroad.

Paul OH3LWR