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What happens with all the Advanced Class licensees who worked
hard to get where they are? Do they just become general class or are they given Extra Class licenses because the tests they had to take at the FCC field office were harder than the extra class license of today and and had to pass a higher code test than required today? I am not familiar with the plan the FCC has but it will be interesting to see if the advanced class is treated fairly. KA0PWW in Minneapolis "Ed G." wrote in message . .. Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. They're planning on eliminating the Advance Class license. Ed WB6SAT |
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If I'm not mistaken, they "may" eliminate that class BUT - that only means
they won't test for or issue that class anymore. ANYONE currently holding such license will continue to hold that class until they upgrade or let it expire for whatever reason - unless of course the FCC would at some point make it equivalent to another and make the change themselves. So, if your license is Advanced and you have to renew it - within the time frame including the given grace period - and that class has been eliminated, you'll get another Advanced Class issued to you. That is the way "I" understood it to be. That is what they did with the others they eliminated. Go to W5YI or ARRL sites and read through, you should see it there somewhere. MNS "Michael Brandt" wrote in message ... What happens with all the Advanced Class licensees who worked hard to get where they are? Do they just become general class or are they given Extra Class licenses because the tests they had to take at the FCC field office were harder than the extra class license of today and and had to pass a higher code test than required today? I am not familiar with the plan the FCC has but it will be interesting to see if the advanced class is treated fairly. KA0PWW in Minneapolis "Ed G." wrote in message . .. Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. They're planning on eliminating the Advance Class license. Ed WB6SAT |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:07:20 -0600, "Michael Brandt"
wrote: What happens with all the Advanced Class licensees who worked hard to get where they are? Do they just become general class or are they given Extra Class licenses because the tests they had to take at the FCC field office were harder than the extra class license of today and and had to pass a higher code test than required today? I am not familiar with the plan the FCC has but it will be interesting to see if the advanced class is treated fairly. KA0PWW in Minneapolis You will be grandfathered to Extra Class. :-) The FCC dropped the Advanced as a new ticket but retained present holders- and could be renewed. This way they don't. You finally get what you really earned by taking the older test. :-) |
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take the extra class test and stop crying
"Michael Brandt" wrote in message ... What happens with all the Advanced Class licensees who worked hard to get where they are? Do they just become general class or are they given Extra Class licenses because the tests they had to take at the FCC field office were harder than the extra class license of today and and had to pass a higher code test than required today? I am not familiar with the plan the FCC has but it will be interesting to see if the advanced class is treated fairly. KA0PWW in Minneapolis "Ed G." wrote in message . .. Seems to me that they should bump up the current General class to Advanced class. This way people who worked hard to get to General will not be locked in with the no code folks. That seems fair?. They're planning on eliminating the Advance Class license. Ed WB6SAT |
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