[CW] FCC degrades Radio Officers

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Gene,

47 CFR � 13.201(b)(1)
(1) First Class Radiotelegraph Operator's Certificate.
(i) Telegraphy Elements 3 and 4;
(ii) Written Elements 1, 5, and 6;
(iii) Applicant must be at least 21 years old;
(iv) Applicant must have one year of experience in sending and receiving
public correspondence by radiotelegraph at a public coast station, a ship
station, or both.

I'd like to see what "public correspondence" he sent for a period of a year.

Answer yourself.  Do you think it is likely that this man fufilled part (iv)
of the above part of the United States Code?

USC 47 CFR � 13.201(b)(g) further states:
(g) No person shall alter, duplicate for fraudulent purposes, or
fraudulently obtain or attempt to obtain an operator license. No person
shall use a license issued to another or a license that he or she knows to
be altered, duplicated for fraudulent purposes, or fraudulently obtained. No
person shall obtain or attempt to obtain, or assist another person to obtain
or attempt to obtain, an operator license by fraudulent means.

The bottom line:

Should the applicant loose his license if he was trying to obtain something
that he wasn't qualified to have?  Should anyone - including the W6RO club -
if they assisted him in doing this -loose their licenses also?

This episode just underscores for me - that radio licenses in general are
being trivialized with the seeming consent of the FCC.

73

David Ring, N1EA



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb@deltasoft.com>
To: "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
Cc: <cw@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] FCC degrades Radio Officers


> > Yes, Gene, that's the point.
> >
> > I frankly doubt that he was employed (that hired for a job as a
telegrapher
> > and paid for such work) at any radio station during that period.
> >
> > This man probably never sent a message - and he is handed the
"experienced"
> > license?
> >
> > Doesn't make sense to me.
> >
> > But you now see what I was driving at.
> >
> > I wonder if he got the time at the Queen Mary - which isn't a ship
(anymore)
> > and doesn't have a license.  It would be very interesting if he got the
> > "time" by sitting at a ham station.
> >
>
> If it bothers you _this_ much, why not contact the FCC and challenge the
> license?
>
> g.
>
>
>