[CW] FCC degrades Radio Officers

[Gene Buckle]

> (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 guess the first question to ask is whether or not the FCC considers the
QM to be a ship.  It certainly meets the physical definition of the word,
but I don't know what the FCC would class it as.

> 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?
>
That depends.  If the FCC consders the W6RO club station to be located on
a "ship" (by their definiton) and he came in on weekends to run the
station, then by my inexpert measure he's _technically_ fulfilled the
requirement.

g.