On Saturday 23 July 2005 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe that it is technically possible to be first licensed as an Extra > class under the current licensing system by passing all 4 elements at a > single volunteer examiner session and having the volunteer examiners submit > all the paperwork for the Extra class license to the FCC. A person never > having passed any FCC ham license test cannot take and pass only element 1 > (code test) and element 4 (extra test) and receive the Extra license. > Perhaps a volunteer examiner could provide a definative answer. > > de KB1IKD
As it was in the previous system. The VEs at my test agreed that there was nothing in the rules that prohibited me from taking all the papers that evening in reverse order. I told Marty, the chief VE that I wanted Extra or nothing because I had all the CW bands operating as W2/G4ICV. With any FCC licence less than Extra, I would have been locked out of the bottom 25 kHz of some of the HF bands because I would no lonfer be allowed to use my reciprocal licence. I took 4B, 4A, 3B, 3A, 2 and 1C in that order getting progressively worse results to the point where I handed in the novice paper with the words, "This could be embarrassing". But Marty gave me a thumbs up and said, "Just the 20 wpm to go, listen to this everyone." The point is that you have to have all the elements up to the class of licence being sought at the time the application is filed. Ian, K2 #4962 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
