[CW] WT Docket 04-140

[K0HB]

The R&O released today covers a plethora of stuff.  On a quick read, here
are my notes on things that interested me.  


1) Novice bands eliminated.  Novices/Tech+ have same CW QRGs as General on
80, 40, 15M. 80 and 40M phone bands expanded, down to 3600 on 75M, down to
7125 on 40M. Extra phone segment on 75 expanded to 100kc (3600-3700),
Advanced similarly gets 100kc (3700-3800), General now starts at 3800.

2) ISS communications can now be retransmitted (as shuttle comms have been
allowed up to now).

3) You can now designate a specific club to get your call "in memorium".

4) People who flood FCC with many vanity applications on the same day will
have all but one application rejected.

(There's a lot of other 'less interesting to me until I read the details'
stuff in there too, much of it "housekeeping" in nature.) 

73, de Hans, K0HB
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