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- ARLB003 Lifetime license sought
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- ARRL Bulletin 3 ARLB003
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT January 11, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
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- SB QST ARL ARLB003
- ARLB003 Lifetime license sought
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- The ARRL on January 6, 1994, petitioned the FCC to make Amateur
- Radio operator licenses valid for a lifetime.
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- The League said in its petition that there is nothing in the
- Communications Act of 1934 that would prevent such a license term
- for amateurs, and that a lifetime operator's license would allow
- inactive amateurs to return to the Service at the same class of
- license without the necessity for retesting.
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- The League believes that the number of amateurs who would benefit
- from such a lifetime license would be ''relatively substantial.''
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- The League said that under the current 10-year license term, with a
- two-year grace period, it already is possible for relatively
- inactive amateurs to remain licensed for long periods of inactivity.
- There is no practical difference, the League said, between such a
- person and one who allows his or her license to expire and later
- wants to again become involved in Amateur Radio.
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- This proposal would apply only to operator licenses; station
- licenses would still, by law, be limited to 10-year terms. A person
- with a lifetime operator license but no station license would not be
- permitted to operate a station of his own (but would be permitted to
- operate from the station of another amateur).
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- The League said that nothing in this proposal should have any effect
- on the call sign issuance program either as it currently exists or
- as proposed (the ''vanity'' call sign program).
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- The League also said it was not proposing at this time to make this
- rule change retroactive, but, rather, to extend currently held
- operator licenses from 10 years to lifetime.
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