[Elecraft] Dropping the Code Test

[Thomas M.Beaudry]

> Well, I took both the Amateur Extra and the First Class
> Commercial Radiotelephone back in 1974. At that time
> at least, they were comparable.

I even remember someone (ARRL?) petitioning the FCC to grant written 
credit for the Extra if you had passed the First Class Commercial and 
vice-versa because they were so similar technically.  The FCC only 
denied the petition because 25% of the questions were regulatory and 
not comparable.

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73 de Thomas M. Beaudry	K8LA / YS1ZTM
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