[OKDXA] License Question

[John Geiger]

Is a US license easier to get than a Brazilian license?  I know for CEPT
agreements, you have to have either a General or Extra, can't remember
which. They didn't recognize the Technician because it was (in their
opinion) too easy.

73 John AF5CC

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Steve Duskin <sduskin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, Jerry.
>
> I am a Volunteer Examiner.  On 06/10/2014 the ARRL and the FCC changes the
> rules to make
> remote testing allowed.  However (and this is a big however) they didn't
> define or list
> what was allowable.  The ARRL had previously approved remote testing for
> Alaska but that
> was via a video conference link between the VEC, the VEs, and the people
> taking the
> test.
>
> Bottom line, it is do-able, but I don't know how we would do it with
> someone in Brazil.
>
> 73
>
> -Steve.
> NE5SD
> OKDXA President 2015-2016
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OKDXA [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gerald.J.
> Chouinard
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 12:53 PM
> To: okdxa at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [OKDXA] License Question
>
> A friend in Brazil who is an American citizen desires to get his ham
> ticket. An OT like
> myself he rarely comes to the states but would like to get an American
> license so he
> then can be allowed to operate in Brazil. I suppose after getting a
> license there based
> on his US license.
>
> I took a look around the ARRL site but didn't find (quickly) any info on
> how he might be
> tested "remotely" for say at least a General class license.
> I can provide him with necessary study materials and he also wants to
> capture the magic
> of the Morse so he will study on that too although no longer needed. In
> High School he
> regularly would sit on a wooden crate and watch me operate and says he
> wishes he had
> gotten a ticket many years ago.
>
> Any help or direction will be appreciated.
>
> 73 - Jerry K5YAA
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