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For those of you into Ham (Amateur) radio, especially the Technician class license holders, this will be pretty exciting and a good way to keep interest in the hobby going due to now having HF transmit ability. The article discusses the re-balancing for digital modes as well, which many people will find to be good move in the digital age.
"ARRL[*] has asked the FCC to expand HF privileges for Technician licensees to include limited phone privileges on 75, 40, and 15 meters, plus RTTY and digital mode privileges on 80, 40, and 15 meters. The FCC has not yet invited public comment on the proposals, which stem from recommendations put forth by the ARRL Board of Directors' Entry-Level License Committee, which explored various initiatives and gauged member opinions in 2016 and 2017."
[*] ARRL: American Radio Relay League (Wikipedia).
Link to original Story:
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-requests-expanded-hf-privileges-for-technician-licensees
Powerpoint presentation of changes (With new bandplan pictures):
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Bandplanning/25%20Appendix%20BP_Committee_recs%20FINAL%20(h).pdf
Thanks for reading and 73's
KE5DKD
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday August 07 2020, @09:01PM
And is it reasonable to expand the Technician class abilities. Most Technicians seem to mainly use prebuilt hand-held transceivers. It's not like they're building their own stuff.
OTOH, there are only three classes of license. Perhaps there needs to be a class in between Technician and General.
When they removed the "know Morse code" requirement from the Technician license, they pretty much opened it up to anyone who cared to try. Perhaps there needs to be something equivalent to "merit badges" that you need to complete to have certain privileges. But while a focused organization could implement that, good luck trying to get anything sensible committed into law...or even past the FCC.
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