[ARC5] FWIW - FCC Will Soon Consolidate Commercial Radiotelegraph Certificates

[Sandy]

This is the second post I have seen like this with a link to the FCC's VERY 
LENGTHY "Report and Order".

Is there a shorter and more concise document that covers this?  It will be 
nice to have a "permanent" license that is nice to have although for all 
practical purposes redundant.  It will be nice not to have to keep forking 
over a fee to the FCC bureaucrats ever few years for what is now a useless 
license.

I keep mine because it wasn't easy to get and at one time "meant something" 
in the radio world.  Now like the Amateur Extra License, it is just a "piece 
of paper".  Not even the 'engraved certificate' it used to be at one time to 
be proudly displayed instead of hidden away in a filing cabinet!

73,

Sandy W5TVW

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Morrow
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 12:53 AM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net ; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ARC5] FWIW - FCC Will Soon Consolidate Commercial Radiotelegraph 
Certificates

On 08 January 2013, the FCC issued a report and order approving 
consolidation of the
First and Second Class Commercial Radiotelegraph Certificates into one 
"Radiotelegraph
Operator License" that requires no renewal for the life of the holder.

The Third Class Certificate is replaced by a "Marine Radio Operator Permit".

The R and O is at:

  http://www.fcc.gov/document/part-13-report-and-order-concerning-commercial-radio-operators

Of course this isn't directly related to list subjects, but quite a few here 
hold or
have held US commercial radiotelegraph licenses.  Frankly, the surprise to 
me is that
radiotelegraph operator licensing wasn't eliminated altogether.  The Morse 
requirements
were already reduced to ham Extra Class requirements about 20 years ago, and 
US
commercial Morse (except for antiquarian demonstrations) ended 12 July 1999.

It'll probably be at least three months before the new rules become 
effective.

73,
Mike / KK5F
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