[SFDXA] Cuban Amateur Radio regulations modified

[Bill Marx]

 From Tony N2MFT

Cuban Amateur Radio regulations modified

Cuban amateur radio service regulations have been modified to provide 
the use of segments of the 80 and 40 meter ham bands to the third class 
operators license holders, that before these new rules could only 
operate on segments of the 160 and 2 meter bands.

The news was much welcomed by the more than two thousand operators that 
hold a CL prefix callsign... the first step in a Cuban radio amateur 
career...

By the way, *the CL prefix holders do not need to pass a CW Morse Code 
radiotelegraphy test*, but they do have to take a 5 words per minute 
receiving and also transmitting test in order to upgrade towards a 
second class operators certificate that opens the way to obtain a CM 
prefix callsign, that provides access to many more operating privileges...

So, if you start hearing stations on the 40 meter band from *7100 to 
7125 kiloHertz* using a CL prefix, be aware that they are a new 
generation of Cuban radio amateurs that for the first time ever are 
having access to working DX on 40 meters...

The segment assigned to the CL stations on 80 meters span from *3550 to 
3750 kiloHertz*, but very probably you will hear them much more often on 
40 meters because the seven megaHertz ham band is open for long distance 
contacts much more frequently than the 80 meters band.

The maximum power allowed to the CL prefix stations, the Cuban beginners 
license has been set at *10 Watts*, that they can use on *CW, Single 
Side band and double sideband voice*.

Raúl E. Verdecie, CO8ZZ

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2012/cuban_amateur_radio_regulations_modified.htm