Dee Flint wrote:

The author of the article made a major error in that he stated
General is
required for HF where as in reality, Techs with code have CW on
several
bands plus voice on 10meter.

It's these "Which way did he go?" screw ups that form my opinion
that there ought to be a stabilizing of the licenses and grandfathering
of existing Advanced and Novices into one of the three existing
classes.

He was fundementally correct that a General class license is the
"basic" HF license...NOW. Of course we still have the "loophole" for
Techs who pass the 5WPM being allowed to use the Novice sub-bands, and
the Novice class license itself...

Waddanitemare!

73

Steve, K4YZ

The author of the article made a major error in that he stated General is
required for HF where as in reality, Techs with code have CW on several
bands plus voice on 10meter.


Maybe he forgot to mention that the only way today to get
on HF from no license at all is to get the general or an
extra? Or can an old tech still take a code test and
become a tech plus?

"robert casey" wrote in message
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The author of the article made a major error in that he stated General is
required for HF where as in reality, Techs with code have CW on several
bands plus voice on 10meter.


Maybe he forgot to mention that the only way today to get
on HF from no license at all is to get the general or an
extra? Or can an old tech still take a code test and
become a tech plus?

Any Tech, old or brand new, can take the code test and get the HF
privileges. It is not called Tech Plus since the code credit, while
permanent for operating, is only good for one year for upgrading purposes.
The old Tech Plus was & is good for code credit even for upgrading even if
it has been more than a year since passing the code.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Any Tech, old or brand new, can take the code test and get the HF
privileges. It is not called Tech Plus since the code credit, while
permanent for operating, is only good for one year for upgrading purposes.
The old Tech Plus was & is good for code credit even for upgrading even if
it has been more than a year since passing the code.


Part of the reason I upgraded from tech plus to extra was to
"lock in" the credit I'd have for passing the old tech (general
written) and 5wpm I had from 1976. Also getting access to
all of ham radio privs was nice too.... HF turned out to be
more fun than 2m ever was.