The problem with getting to First Class is you need time on the air
using CW. And that doesn't happen any more what with GMDSS.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ham-Radio-History/message/10498?
threaded=1&var=1&l=1>
Except at the "new" 500kHz coast stations.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ham-Radio-History/message/10671?
threaded=1&var=1>
> Ah, but to sit the exam for the First Class Radiotelegraph license
> one must be
> able to demonstrate experience as a commercial Morse operator
> aboard ship or at
> a coast station. The places where such experience can be obtained
> are indeed
> thin upon the ground these days. As the US Federal Communications
> Commission
> recently ruled, amateur and military experience doesn't count.
>
> But one year after obtaining your coast station license and putting
> your station
> into operation, or by being associated with the station of another
> licensee, you
> will be qualified to take the exam for the First Radiotelegraph.
Read the thread for more info.
OK, this is OT. I suppose TT doesn't make any 500KHz gear. Yet :-)
73 Kevin
On Dec 4, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:
> I have my 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, mainly because I saw that it was
> still available. For some odd reason, the FCC hasn't done away with
> it. I took my 20 wpm Extra test before the FCC, so I qualified by
> taking only the written portion. The written is pretty arcane (and
> hasn't been updated for many years), asking lots of questions about
> super-regen receivers and message handling protocols. I learned those
> on CW traffic nets, so it wasn't too bad.
-...-
73 DE N7WIM / G8UDP
Kevin Purcell
kevinpurcell@pobox.com
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