[NJARC] Amateur Radio License

[John Dilks K2TQN]

Hi Scott,

** commented below......

At 03:44 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote:
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>Hi Guys- Here are a couple questions for the "Hams" in the
>club...
>
>I am getting ready to take my Technician exam, hopefully in the
>next few weeks, and I had a couple questions I could not find
>answers to as readily as I would like on the ARRL site...
>
>First, from what I can see, there is no licensing fee from the
>FCC- just a testing fee from whomever administers the test- is
>this correct?

** Correct


>Second- there is no longer ANY morse testing requirement? Just
>work out morse on your own, and take a whack at it, once
>licensed?


** Correct


>Third, I would like to request my late Uncle's call sign: Would I
>be able to, as a Technician, under the "Vanity" call sign plan?
>The call sign was WB3KSM and he was licensed as a "Novice" It
>expired in 1997, about the same time he started going downhill
>with Alzheimers, before becoming an SK.

** Once you have a license, you can apply for a vanity call.  You can 
get his provided no one else has it.  His class doesn't matter, it 
will follow you call privileges.


>And lastly, does anyone know off hand what freq's I could operate
>a BC-375 on that would fall within the amateur bands? Looks like
>the 80 meter range hits where part of the BC-375 operates...


I guess 80 and 40 meters.  I don't have one handy right now to look at it.

73, and welcome to ham radio.


>Thanks
>Scott
>
>
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