[GreenKeys] RTTY HF technician license? Not so fast.

[Wayne Letourneau]

-------Original Message-------
 
From: Eugene Hertz
Date: 02/01/05 09:43:47
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [GreenKeys] RTTY HF technician license? Not so fast.
 
Well, as I am studying in my ARRL "Now Your Talking" book, I read something
very dissapointing that I did not realize.
 
Many of you have been hams for a while and may not be aware of this. There
were some recent changes in the licensing structure and now there are 3
licenses granted, technician, general and extra. The technician allows only
VHF and above, unless you also pass the 5 WPM code test which will give you
(so I thought) several HF bands to use.
 
What I just discovered was that there is only one HF band that I will be
able to use with RTTY. It is 10 meters with about 400Khz of band availble.
You might disagree with me, but why not allow a new technician plus
(assuming I can pass the test) to use any mode on the HF bands that are
permitted for technician plus? I think its a jip.
 
Let me tell you sometime -- this technician license test is no cake walk. If
I didnt already have a college level background in electronics, this thing
would really be brutal (yes, I know. Nine-year-olds have passed it. How, I
can't imagine). I can not imagine how hard the general test would be to get
me the proper ability to use RTTY on HF (and run my model 28--ok, this
message is only "near-topic").
 
Very dissapointing and a little discouraging :(
Eugene
PS Maybe after I study and get my technician plus license, the FCC will let
me run RTTY on the citizens band. (just kidding)

Hi
you do realize that you can get the questions out of the pool that you would
be taking on your test. 9 year olds pass the test as all they have to do is
memorize thease questions and answeres. When you get down to this, the test
is not even remotly a challenge to anyone. The test has been so dumbed down
in the past few years that it is rare indeed that anyone fails it.
Wayne  WB0CTE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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