[CW] New RadioTelegraph Operator License

[Joe V31JP]

Thank you, Steve.

I have been trying to sort this out, so I just need to pass element 6 
for my Radio Telegraph Operators License.  Where is my study guide?
Next trip up to the US, I will do it.  Maybe I will set up a shore 
station here is Belize!

On 5/21/2013 12:31 PM, sbjohnston at aol.com wrote:
> I'm proud to announce that the FCC granted my new RadioTelegraph 
> Operator Licenseyesterday. It is number T000000001, so I am the very 
> first to receive the new type of radiotelegraph ticket. There doesn't 
> seem to be a T000000002 yet, so apparently I am the *only* holder as 
> well.  -grin-   That and $5 will buy me lunch at McDonalds.
>
> When the FCC announced the new radiotelegraph license structure in 
> January (see below), I asked the FCC's helpdesk what elements would be 
> neededfor me to get the new ticket. They confirmed that applicants for 
> the new Radiotelegraph Operator License would be required to pass 
> written elements 1 and 6, and telegraphy elements 1 and 2.  I hold an 
> Amateur Extra class license issued before April 15, 2000, so my 
> passing of that 20 wpm code test would substitute for Telegraphy 
> Elements 1 and 2.  I also hold a General Radiotelephone Operator 
> License(was originally a First-Phone), so that would cover written 
> element 1.  That left me only needing to take the exam for written 
> element 6.
>
> ETA was the only COLEM (the commercial equivalent of volunteer 
> examiners)that responded to my email inquiries - none of the others 
> even bothered to reply. It took me three months to work out with ETA 
> how to take the exam. Their examinersbased at a nearby college 
> apparentlyvanished without notice, and thus there was a lot of 
> dead-end emailing and back-n-forth discussion. ETA finally offered the 
> optionto have a local library proctor the exam. I made all the library 
> arrangements and took the exam a couple weeks ago.  In just a few days 
> ETA let me know I'd passed.  Then last week they told me they needed 
> two signed passport photos for the application. Fortunately I got 
> their message when I was having lunch next door to a Walgreens that 
> takes such photos, near a post office where I could mail them to ETA, 
> all done in a half-hour or so.  ETAapparently received the pictures in 
> time to submit my application on the first day theCommission was able 
> to acceptthem, May 20.
>
> With the demise of commercialmaritime CW, there is little practical 
> use for a radiotelegraph ticket.  Except for museum-ships and 
> historical club shore stations, there is little commercial Morse to be 
> heard on the"ship-to-shore" bands. Why bother with a new version of an 
> antique license?  Iappreciated the challenge of studying for aserious 
> exam covering technology from a very wide time range- 1920s to 2000s, 
> and I'd like to be able to operate one of the restored maritime 
> stations some day.
>
> "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" George Mallory is famously 
> quoted as having replied, "Because it's there".   It is unlikely I 
> will climb Mount Everest, but I can always learn more about radio and 
> electronics.
>
> 73   Steve WD8DAS
>
> sbjohnston at aol.com <mailto:sbjohnston at aol.com>
> http://www.wd8das.net/
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