[AMRadio] Extra Class downgraded to advanced

Tue Nov 1 00:27:01 EDT 2011

CW aside, I will give you that the current Extra written is no where close to the 2nd phone I took in 1969 or, IIRC, Element 3 in the late 50's, early 60's.  Of course, there were not as many fancy new modes then.  If I remember, the only digital mode then was CW and solid state electronics consisted of a few point-contact diodes and transistors like the CK-722 group.

I wonder where the information came from that a current General needs proof of when they were licensed.  That is correct for Technicians, but a current General gets automatic credit for Elements 2 and 3 unless a change has been made very recently.

73,
Mitch, K9PNP

> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:49:38 -0700
> From: w4bni at yahoo.com
> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class downgraded to advanced
> 
> 
> all the people had to do to up grade from advanced to extra was do the code the extra theory was nothing ,then came along the no code and a little sat and regs and boy everyone thought they did something.dont ever think you did something monumental , we jump through the hoops the f.c.c. sets forth albeit now pretty simple.but we hams do what we have to at the time to comply.many of us did the gen,adv,extra with 20 wpm not because we wanted to but because that was the standard set forth at the time .I hope the new extras enjoy the priviledges.
> --- On Mon, 10/31/11, Neal Newman <cozy659 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Neal Newman <cozy659 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class downgraded to advanced
> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, October 31, 2011, 9:40 PM
> 
> Well  I too am in that twilight zone called the Advanced class. The FCC should take into account how many years one works as a broadcast engineer,and forget the sat requirement and give us Advanced class broadcast engineer experience credits for an Extra plus class
> 
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> On Oct 31, 2011, at 9:30 PM, "Bernie Doran" <qedconsultants at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I do not believe this, and doubt if the FCC would even do it!! name a few of 
> > the " lot"
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Kevin Raper" <kj4hyd at gmail.com>
> > To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" 
> > <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 3:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Extra Class
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> >> 
> >>> It could be worse: you could hold a license class below Extra that
> >>> doesn't even exist anymore. I'm still an Advanced class while all my
> >>> buddies are Extras. They do give me a bit of good-natured ribbing
> >>> about it, reminding me that at least the General Class still exists!
> >> 
> >> LOL, I know a lot of Extras downgraded to Advanced when No-Code Extra came 
> >> out so they could "Prove" They earned it with Code.
> >> 
> >> Everybody to their own, I reckon.
> >> 
> >>> Congrats on the upgrade. I look forward to working you on the bands 
> >>> soon -
> >> 
> >> I am looking forward to it as well.
> >> 
> >> 73,
> >> Kevin Raper
> >> KJ4HYD/AE
> >> CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ
> >> 
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