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Testing
NCVEC - List of changes and also
the question pools to download.
Clear Lake
Deuel County Amateur Radio
Club
Possible date in Oct.
Hamfest site in city park
Clear Lake SD
Contact: Rob
Schmidt - N0TAW
Brookings
Brookings Radio Research
Club
None at this time
Contact: BRRC -
W0BXO
Watertown
Lake Amateur Radio Club
None at this time
Contact: Gary Mayfield (605) 886-8532
Huron
Huron Amateur Radio Club
None at this time
Contact: Llyod
Timperley WB0ULX
LDS Church
1540 Frank Ave SE Huron SD
Marshall, MN
Marshall Amateur Radio Club
None at this time
Contact:
Slayton, MN
Murry Co Amateur Radio
Emergency Services Group
None at this time
Contact:
Murry Co ARES
Murry Co Court House
2500 28th St
Slayton, MN 56172
Sioux Falls
Sioux Empire Amateur Radio
Club
None at this time
Contact: James
Stalzer - WJ0S
Emergency Management Building
600 N Siegler Ave Sioux Falls
Madison, MN
Madison Amateur Radio Club
None at this time
Contact:
South Dakota
Minnesota
Testing locations
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Technician
Class Licensees
FCC modifies
the Amateur Radio Service rules by eliminating the Morse code
exam requirements.
The effective
date of the FCC's action will be 30 days after publication in
the Federal Register -- most likely in February.
In an historic
move, the FCC has acted to drop the Morse code test requirement
for all Amateur Radio license classes. The Commission adopted
the long-awaited "Morse code" proceeding (WT Docket 05-235), and
released it December 19. The FCC's action will eliminate the
Morse code test as a licensing requirement to operate on HF.
Technicians
Gain Operating Privileges
Once the
changes are in effect, all Technician licensees -- whether or
not they have passed a Morse code examination -- will have "Tech
Plus" operating privileges. This means you will have all of your
current VHF/UHF and above frequencies and also will have access
to the Novice/Technician Plus frequencies on HF.
No Morse Code
Test to Upgrade
Technicians
can upgrade to General by passing the General (Element 3)
written exam and to Amateur Extra by also passing the Extra
(Element 4) written exam. No Morse code test will be required.
Visit the ARRL VEC exam search web page
http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml for test
session locations.
Navigating
through the Upgrade Process
1. Technician
Amateurs who wish to upgrade to General have a couple of
options.
a. We recommend
that Technician licensees who have NOT yet passed the General
written exam (Element 3) wait until the new rules take effect to
upgrade. At a session, the candidate must present a photo ID and
their current license, pay the $14 test session fee and fill out the
NCVEC form 605. If the Element 3 written exam is passed, the VE
team will issue the candidate a CSCE for the upgrade to a general
class license.
b. Technician
licensees who have already passed the General written exam (Element
3) or wish to pass the General written exam before the rules take
effect, will then have to apply for the upgrade at a VE session once
the new rules are in place. At a session, the candidate must
present a photo ID, their current license and the non-expired CSCE
document, pay the $14 test session fee and fill out a NCVEC form
605. If the Element 3 written exam credit is valid, the VE team
will issue the candidate a CSCE for the upgrade to a general class
license. If the CSCE for Element 3 credit has expired (a CSCE is
only valid for 365 days), you will have to retake the examination
element in order to receive the credit toward your upgrade.
- SB QST @ ARL $ARLB005
- ARLB005 It's official! Morse code requirement ends Friday,
February 23.
- ZCZC AG05
- QST de W1AW
- ARRL Bulletin 5 ARLB005
- From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington CT January 24, 2007
- To all radio amateurs
- SB QST ARL ARLB005
- ARLB005 It's official! Morse code requirement ends Friday,
February 23.
- Circle Friday, February 23, on your calendar. That's when the
current 5 WPM Morse code requirement will officially disappear from
the Amateur Radio Service Part 97 rules. On or after that date,
applicants for a General or Amateur Extra class Amateur Radio
license no longer will have to demonstrate proficiency in Morse
code. They'll just have to pass the applicable written examination.
- Federal Register publication January 24 of the FCC's Report and
Order (R&O) in the "Morse code proceeding," WT Docket 05-235, starts
a 30-day countdown for the new rules to become effective. Deletion
of the Morse requirement - still a matter of controversy within the
amateur community - is a landmark in Amateur Radio history.
- "The overall effect of this action is to further the public
interest by encouraging individuals who are interested in
communications technology or who are able to contribute to the
advancement of the radio art, to become Amateur Radio operators; and
eliminating a requirement that is now unnecessary and may discourage
Amateur Service licensees from advancing their skills in the
communications and technical phases of Amateur Radio," the FCC
remarked in the "Morse code" R&O that settled the matter, at least
from a regulatory standpoint.
- The League had asked the FCC to retain the 5 WPM for Amateur
Extra class applicants, but the Commission held to its decision to
eliminate the requirement across the board. The R&O appearing in the
Federal Register constitutes the official version of the new rules.
- It is on the web in PDF format at,
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov
- /2007/pdf/E7-729.pdf.
- Until 1991, when a Morse code examination was dropped from the
requirements to obtain a Technician ticket, all prospective radio
amateurs had to pass a Morse code test. With the change the US will
join a growing list of countries that have dropped the need to
demonstrate some level of Morse code proficiency to earn access to
frequencies below 30 MHz.
- The new rules also put all Technician licensees on an equal
footing, whether or not they've passed a Morse code examination.
Starting February 23, Technicians will gain CW privileges on 80, 40,
15 meters and CW, RTTY, data and SSB privileges on 10 meters.
- Once the revised rules are in place, an applicant holding a
valid Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) for
Element 3 (General) or Element 4 (Amateur Extra) may redeem it for
an upgrade. A CSCE is good for 365 days from the date of issuance,
no exceptions. For example, a Technician licensee holding a valid
CSCE for Element 3 may apply at a Volunteer Examiner Coordinator
- (VEC) test session, pay the application fee, which most VECs
charge, and receive an instant upgrade.
- The FCC R&O includes an Order on Reconsideration in WT Docket
04-140
- - the so-called "omnibus" proceeding. It will modify Part 97 in
response to ARRL's request to accommodate automatically controlled
narrowband digital stations on 80 meters in the wake of other rule
changes that became effective last December 15. The Commission
designated 3585 to 3600 kHz for such operations, although that
segment will remain available for CW, RTTY and data. The ARRL had
requested that the upper limit of the CW/RTTY/data subband be set at
- 3635 kHz, so that there would be no change in the existing 3620
to
- 3635 kHz subband.
- The ARRL has posted all relevant information on these important
Part
- 97 rule revisions on its "FCC's Morse Code Report and Order WT
Docket 05-235" Web page,
http://www.arrl.org/fcc/morse/.
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