Tony VE6MVP ) writes:


Nothing there about getting automatic access to HF after three years
of getting your Basic license.

Tony

It's more a puzzler than anything else. In effect they are saying
anyone who's been licensed for three years at this point has experience,
while in the future 3 years experience is not sufficient.

It seems odd that if they feel a need to grandfather some, it's not
a blanket grandfathering at the time the new rules go into effect.
But given that they do specify a date, that would seem to be the case.


Of course, if this was the old days, they'd have to bring their log
in to show that they had a good three years of experience, rather
than just sitting on the license. Who can forget the old endorsement
for the amateur license that gave some limited HF phone, but you had
to prove that you had been active on HF CW in that time period.

I'm just really curious why they picked three years and not one.
The experience angle seems more to justify a partial grandfathering
than that experience can be generally traded in for HF priviliges.

Michael VE2BVW