[CW] New RadioTelegraph Operator License

Tue May 21 15:30:01 EDT 2013

I have been meaning to do this myself and didn't around to it before they changed the structure. I have a question pool for elements 5 and 6 published by W5YI and labeled as "effective July, 1994."

Does anyone know if this pool is still valid?

Thanks,

Rolfe
W1VC

On May 21, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Joe V31JP <v31jp1957 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 License yesterday.  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 needed for 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 examiners based at a nearby college apparently vanished without notice, and thus there was a lot of dead-end emailing and back-n-forth discussion. ETA finally offered the option to 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.  ETA apparently received the pictures in time to submit my application on the first                                     day the Commission was able to accept them, May 20. 
>> 
>> With the demise of commercial maritime 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?  I appreciated the challenge of studying for a serious 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
>> http://www.wd8das.net/
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