Hi Paul, Considering that neither the ARRL or the FCC did the right thing, which would have been to make the Technician Class license the entry class license that it really could have been by maintaining the Novice Subbands and keeping the Novice RF input power for all classes of licensees but allow all modes, voice and digital to be used in the sub bands on 80, 40 and 15m and not just restricting such ( and even not all modes) operations to 10m, then yes, there really is no choice but to upgrade to General as the Technician class license on HF remains a joke.
/s/ Steve, N2CKH At 06:39 PM 1/20/2007, you wrote: >Nope - General and higher will have all modes. > >For no-code techs, it's the opposite -- except on 10 meters, HF >privileges for codeless techs will be *CW ONLY*: no SSB, no SSTV, >no RTTY, no soundcard digital -- except for CW. ON/OFF keying >using the international morse code. > >On 10 meters, they'll be allowed CW and data in the bottom of the >band, and SSB-only from 28.3 to 28.5 > >I suspect most of the techs who choose to come down to HF frequencies >will upgrade (written test only) to General or Extra. > > >larry allen wrote: > > Assuming the no code licencee can only use voice... what happens when they > > loose interest in only being able to use voice.... > > Larry ve3fxq > > > > > >Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster >telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > >Our other groups: > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97 > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
