On 10/2/2014 1:40 PM, Howard Lester wrote:
Jeff, where do you see, in that article or *anywhere*, that the Amateur
Extra provided additional privileges?

Well, let's see....
The Department of Commerce created a new top-level license in
1923, the Amateur Extra First Grade, that conveyed extra operating
privileges. It required a more difficult written examination and a
code test at twenty words per minute.

In 1933, the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) reorganized amateur operator
licenses into Classes A, B and C. Class A conveyed all
amateur operating privileges, including certain reserved radio-
telephone bands.

From 1951 until the advent of incentive licensing in the late 1960s,
the Technician, Conditional and General classes shared the same written
examination and the Conditional, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra
classes shared the same operating privileges.

Note: This is your "smoking gun" a 17 year window where Extra wasn't
"extra" as far as operating privileges was concerned.

In 1968, once again, as in previously, from 1923 through 1951 (28
years) the Extra class license conveyed extra privileges.

In retrospect, it's now 2014, and a variation of Extra class license
has been available continuously since 1923 (91 years.) Of that 91 years,
74 years of having an Extra class license has meant extra privileges
for those holding that grade of license.

If anywhere in that history, you want to point a finger, it would
be the restructuring in 1951 that resulted in disincentive licensing
where a majority of General class licensees decided there was NO point
in upgrading.


that held the license



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