"Mike Yetsko" wrote in message ...
From what I heard, (from a posting on QRZ) the NCVEC group
yesterday filed a petition with the FCC to abandon CW testing.

The petition, unfortunatly, makes no provisions to preserve CW
subbands...

Mike,

What CW subbands?

I just read the thing on QRZ.com, and it looks to me like all the
NCVEC wants to do is dump Element 1 and allow Techs who have not
passed a code test to have the same HF privs as Novices and Techs who
have passed a code test. No subband changes, written test changes,
etc. Just elimination of Element 1.

Did I miss something?

Odd that NCVEC beat NCI to the punch on this one.

73 de Jim, N2EY

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"Mike Yetsko" wrote in message
...
From what I heard, (from a posting on QRZ) the NCVEC group
yesterday filed a petition with the FCC to abandon CW testing.

The petition, unfortunatly, makes no provisions to preserve CW
subbands...

Mike,

What CW subbands?

I just read the thing on QRZ.com, and it looks to me like all the
NCVEC wants to do is dump Element 1 and allow Techs who have not
passed a code test to have the same HF privs as Novices and Techs who
have passed a code test. No subband changes, written test changes,
etc. Just elimination of Element 1.

Did I miss something?

Odd that NCVEC beat NCI to the punch on this one.

73 de Jim, N2EY

If you read the proposal, it's a bit confusing in how they specify frequency
for privilege. The only two scenarios that make sense is that they propose
rolling in novice CW space with generic space, or that novice space is
allowed into the CW space even though they've never been tested for
CW.

The second I approve of. I think right now, today, all tech operators
should be allowed on HF in the CW space for novices. Ie, give them
the CW space to play with IN CW ONLY.

Mike

"Mike Yetsko" wrote in message
...
From what I heard, (from a posting on QRZ) the NCVEC group
yesterday filed a petition with the FCC to abandon CW testing.

The petition, unfortunatly, makes no provisions to preserve CW
subbands...

The CW subbands are already called out in the FCC regulations separately
from the CW testing. Thus simply dropping the code test from the rules does
not change the rules on the subband allocations. Thus the NCVEC petition
does not need a provision to preserve the CW subbands.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE