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- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 04:30:08 PDT
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- Subject: Ham-Policy Digest V94 #179
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- Ham-Policy Digest Thu, 21 Apr 94 Volume 94 : Issue 179
-
- Today's Topics:
- "NOCODE" Tech to "TechPLUS" upgrading
- /AA? (I'm confused)
- VE's license revoked???
-
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-
- Date: 20 Apr 94 22:14:00 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!elroy.uh.edu!st3qi@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: "NOCODE" Tech to "TechPLUS" upgrading
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- In article <1994Apr20.193002.3527@mixcom.mixcom.com>, kevin jessup <kevin.jessup@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes...
- >When a "codeless" tech "upgrades" to TECH plus 5WPM code, he simply
- >gets a CSCE for the 5WPM. No forms get sent to the FCC. At least
- >not when I upgraded. I was told to just save the form in case
- >someone asked to see it.
- >
- >Also, when I received my license (March of 1993) there was no
- >indication other than TECHNICIAN with PRIMARY privileges. (Will
- >this change for future technicians?)
- >
- >So...what is to prevent a codeless tech from operating 10 meter
- >SSB? Who would know that he did NOT upgrade?? Does anybody
- >really care? ;-))
- >
- >--
- > /`-_ kevin.jessup@mixcom.com
- > { }/ Marquette Electronics, Inc
- > \ / N9SQB, ARRL, Amateur Radio
- > |__*| N9SQB @ WD9ANY.#MKE.WI.USA.NA
-
- When the FCC gets their new computer system online they WILL begin to
- issue Technician and Technician Plus licenses.
-
- The only way to find out if a Technician is "codeless" or "plus" is to
- call the VEC (W5YI, ARRL, etc) and ask them. Periodically, the VEC's
- forward this information to the FCC, so the FCC has the information also.
-
- If anyone knows of other avenues, please let me know.
-
- ps. Kevnin, do people call you "Nathan" or "Colonal"? :)
-
- 73...
-
- -Brad Killebrew N5LJV
- -st3qi@jetson.uh.edu
- -President, Univ of Houston ARC
-
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-
- Date: 20 Apr 94 14:02:16 GMT
- From: agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!news.bu.edu!noc.near.net!news.tufts.edu!news.hnrc.tufts.edu!jerry@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- Subject: /AA? (I'm confused)
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- I confuse easily. Would someone straighen me out about
- this?
-
- Suppose a technician upgrades to advanced. Part 97.9(b)
- says that advanced privileges can be used as long as the
- individual has a CSCE. 97.119(e) says that a modifier must
- be used after the call sign. In this case it would be /AA.
-
- My confusion arises becase the FCC does not require a
- change of call signs. Does this mean that if N0NNN were to go
- from Technician to Advanced without requesting a change in
- call sign, (s)he would be required to use N0NNN/AA while the
- upgrade was being processed but could go back to plain old
- N0NNN once the new license was received!!!???
-
- Thanks.
-
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-
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 23:07:34 GMT
- From: ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!world!drt@network.ucsd.edu
- Subject: VE's license revoked???
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- Jesse L Wei (jlw3@cec3.wustl.edu) wrote:
- : In response to the fact that I am on week 16 waiting for my tech + license,
- : I have been increasingly aggressive in finding out what is the holdup with
- : my ticket. It turns out that after a considerable amount of prying, I have
- : found, to my dismay, that one of the VE's administering my test has had his
- : license revoked,
-
- Oh, boy.
-
- : and as a result, they have kept my application an extra ten weeks.
- : I am told (by the VEC) to wait another month (21 weeks!!!!!!!)
- : for my ticket.
-
- If the "they" in the previous sentence also refers to the VEC, does that
- mean that the FCC hasn't even seen your 610 yet? Oh, dear ...
-
- : I am sick and tired of waiting. I will not have any
- : equipment at home in dallas to play with, whereas I can use the shack here
- : at school IF I GET MY LICENSE BEFORE I LEAVE. A couple of questions:
- : (or rather a few)
-
- : 1) what can a ve do to get his license revoked?
-
- Lotsa things. Like take bribes from people who don't care to study
- for the exams, for one.
-
- : 2) what can I do to get my license without waiting another month??? Does
- : anybody have the addresses of the Texas senators, or representatives
- : for precinct 1107 in Texas?
-
- : 3) can the ARRL do anything to find out what is *really* going on with my
- : application??? This is *mighty* frustrating!!!
-
- You do have a problem. Politicians won't be able to override the fact
- that your test session may be invalid (if you don't have a licence,
- you're not a VE, so only 2 VE's have examined you, and of course,
- that's not enough). ARRL certainly won't. (They wouldn't happen to
- be the VEC in question, would they?) You don't think they're being
- straight with you, that it's just an excuse?
-
- : --jesse, and I'm getting really pissed off.
-
-
- I don't blame you. Not a bit.
-
- But you might want to count your blessings - the FCC could have (and
- may still) tell you to retake the exams. (This might be faster,
- actually, if the VEC is just going to sit on your application until
- Kingdom Come. I guess you'd have to have them return the first 610 -
- lotsa luck with that one.) The FCC could even tell you you have to
- retake it from them, if they're suspicious. Hope they let it slide.
-
- And if counting blessings doesn't work? I, for one, would never
- encourage you to go blow that VE's fool head off. But it might be
- theraputic to fanatize about it. As a VE myself, people like that
- make me, in the words of Marvin the Martian, "very angry". Other than
- that, you may be stuck.
-
- Let us know what happens.
-
- -drt
-
- "That Earth creature has stolen the Immodium Q-38 explosive space
- modulatorrr!"
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |David R. Tucker KG2S 8P9CL drt@world.std.com|
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Date: 20 Apr 94 17:15:28 GMT
- From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!kabuki.EECS.Berkeley.EDU!kennish@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
- To: ham-policy@ucsd.edu
-
- References <CoICtL.6ur@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, <2p1el9$m12@clarknet.clark.net>, <2p3egi$cbp@dancer.cc.bellcore.com>
- Subject : Re: Illinois anti scanner legislation
-
- FLASH - IMPORTANT - ACT NOW...
-
- HOUSE BILL 4180 - 88TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- STATE OF ILLINOIS 1993 AND 1994
-
- INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CROSS ON 12 APRIL 1994
-
- SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED 720 ILCS 5/31-9 NEW
-
- LRB8814416RCMB Sec.31-9
-
- Amends the Criminal code of 1961. Prohibits the possession of a
- receiver or transceiver capable of monitoring or broadcasting
- police, fire, or other municipal radio frequencies unless the
- ^^^^^^
- device operates exclusively on alternating current power. Penalty
- is a Class B misdemeanor.
-
- (stuff deleted)
-
- I guess this would also make radar detectors illegal too...
-
-
- -Ken
-
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- End of Ham-Policy Digest V94 #179
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