[CW] QRM and Technician License Expansion

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Technicians have CW privileges on 80, 40, 15, and CW, Data, and SSB on 10M
as well as lots of VHF and UHF privileges.

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Tech%20Band%20Chart/US%20Amateur%20Radio%20Technician%20Privileges.pdf

But they don't know Morse which is the source of most objections.  Many new
General Class amateurs don't know Morse either, and they figure that if the
digital mode isn't printing on their screen, they're not causing
interference.

I'm not going to figure out if Incentive Licensing of 1967 was a failure or
not.

73

DR
N1EA






On Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 12:13 Bruce Prior <n7rr at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Granting some limited *HF* voice and digital privileges to Technicians is
> long overdue. The problem is that Technicians and higher-class licensees
> seldom talk to each other, either on the air or in person.
>
> After they get a taste for *HF* operating and new activities like SOTA
> and POTA, many Technicians may upgrade to General Class. The General Class
> test is not markedly more difficult than the Technician one, but many
> Technicians don't feel motivated to make that move because they haven't
> experienced the thrill of *HF* operating. Remember that General Class
> operators have access to all Amateur Radio bands. Only on 80 m, 40 m, 20 m
> and 15 m do Amateur Extra Class operators have more spectrum than Generals
> do. Some of those new Generals may then become curious about that CW thing.
> As long as they learn Morse code by sound rather than by those pesky
> dot-dash charts, they will progress quickly into the CW world.
>
> 73,
> Bruce Prior N7RR
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