I have my 2nd Class Radiotelegraph and as near as
I could tell, it really is nothing but wall
paper. because I got my Extra back when we had to
sit the exams before the FCC, I didn't have to
take the CW test. I don't think that shipboard
operators need to have any CW capability: it's
all GMDSS now. I got the 2nd class simply because
it was still available and I wanted it before the
FCC decided to stop issuing them. If I recall,
the complete GMDSS licensing requires some time
in a Coast Guard school for full certification.
Kim N5OP
At 01:21 PM 2/24/2007, you wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 09:42 -0700, JAMES HANLON
>wrote: > This is a snip from this week's ARRL
>Letter that will be of interest to those
>considering a Commercial CW License. > > Jim,
>W8KGI > > FCC says no commercial credit for
>prior military, ham radio, experience: > The FCC
>has told a California radio amateur that it will
>not waive a > commercial license application
>rule on the basis of his Amateur Radio Morse >
>code qualifications. Last April, Robert E.
>Griffin, K6YR, of San Luis > Obispo, applied for
>an FCC First Class Radiotelegraph Operator's
>Certificate > -- known as a T1 license --
>requesting a waiver of §13.201(b)(1)(iv).
>That > rule says T1 applicants must have a
>year's experience "sending and receiving >
>public correspondence by radiotelegraph at a
>public coast station, a ship > station, or
>both." Oh, that's simpler than it was 48 years
>ago when I got my 2nd and ship's radar
>endorsement. Then the experience had to be AT
>SEA under the command of a holder of the first.
>Coast station didn't count for that experience
>(likely a free to the ship apprentice ship).
>Though as I recall it only took 6 months, not a
>year. I suppose ships sparks today though they
>spend more time on a satellite circuit or fixing
>computers and VCRs than on HF still are required
>to have the first CW on US ships. Otherwise its
>nothing but exclusive wall paper. I passed my
>2nd (and 1st phone) 48 years ago, but the CW
>license hasn't yet paid for its cost (and it was
>free other than trolley fare to the examination
>site and the day skipped from school). -- 73,
>Jerry, K0CQ, All content copyright Dr. Gerald N.
>Johnson, electrical engineer
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