[TenTec] Commercial CW License

[RaySoifer at cs.com]

In a message dated 2/24/2007 2:33:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> I don't think that shipboard 
> operators need to have any CW capability:

Even though the Coast Guard supposedly abolished the need for CW in 1999, 
some maritime CW operation continues, largely through the efforts of the Maritime 
Radio Historical Society, a group made up mostly of retired station ops from 
KPH in California.  They periodically put KPH back on CW, as well as KSM, a 
newly-licensed commercial coast station which they established.  Most of them 
are also hams.  Google them for more info.

The FCC requirement for a T1 license to serve as chief op of a US passenger 
ship still remains.

73,

Ray W2RS (and T2 plus radar endorsement -- never qualified for the service 
endorsement for a T1)