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- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 10:07:21 PST
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- Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #23
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- Ham-Policy Digest Wed, 26 Jan 94 Volume 94 : Issue 23
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- Today's Topics:
- ARRL's Lifetime Amateur licenses
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- Date: 26 Jan 94 14:57:40 GMT
- From: news-mail-gateway@ucsd.edu
- Subject: ARRL's Lifetime Amateur licenses
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
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- >privs that we *do* do is remember to file a 610 at least once a decade
- >- easily missed, since the FCC never notifies you you're license is
- >about to expire. Big deal. It may have little to do with contempt
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- i received e-mail from a league staffer indicating the FCC WAS going to start
- sending out tickler notices in a postcard form that would just require the
- operator to sign off and return. and that Fred Maia will do it for $4.
- surprised this information wasn't posted to the net, but maybe there's still
- some problem there as well (people not keeping their addresses up to
- date..hmm does a returned tickler card due to bad address automatically
- generate a NAL for someone when they send in a renewal?..). there was also an
- implication that a lifetime operator license would be a lever to get lifetime
- vanity calls (w/o a fee every 10 years..) as long as the operator renews his
- station license...but i don't know why a lifetime operator license would cause
- a lifetime station license to occur or why they would give up $7/year fees --
- i still think there should be some sort of check in.
-
- pilot licenses are forever, but the medical certification is not and you need
- to have regular check rides (something like every 2 years or so - i forget).
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- >with a new callsign. All we need do is have a lifetime grace period
- >for renewal, but you lose your callsign after 2 years. It would
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- i like this idea. painless and simple to implement at the FCC level and
- avoids the operator with no station license snag. although i think Mike
- Denigan has a point about currency.
-
- >Does this mean you would like to see re-testing for all amateurs? Would
- >this simply be theory or theory plus code?
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- I'd give 'em the doubt if they stay current in renewals since we'll let that
- stand for someone at least interested enough to keep himself in the files.
- it's probably more important to find a way to get people who have licenses
- today motivated to get on the air.
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- bill wb9ivr
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