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- December 13, 1990
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- FCC ESTABLISHES NEW CODELESS CLASS OF AMATEUR OPERATOR LICENSE
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- (PR DOCKET 90-55)
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- The Commission has revised the examination requirement for the
- Technician Class operator license, thereby creating a new codeless class of
- amateur operator license. After these revisions become effective, an
- examinee will not be required to prove that he or she can send and receive
- texts in Morse code telegraph signals to qualify for a Technican Class
- amateur operator license.
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- The amateur service currently consists of five classes of licenses
- having increasing privileges and each being progressively more difficult to
- obtain. The classes are Novice, Technician, General, Advanced, and Amateur
- Extra.
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- The FCC noted that offering a codeless class of license that
- authorizes control operator privileges at stations which transmit
- exclusively above 30 Mhz, provides an entry level opportunity to otherwise
- qualified persons who find telegraph a barrier to pursuing the purposes of
- the amateur service.
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- Therefore, the FCC has established the Technician Class as the
- codeless class of license. This license includes all amateur privileges
- above 30 Mhz. The Commission also amended the rules to grandfather
- frequency privileges below 30 Mhz to current Technician Class licensees.
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- In addition, the Commission decided to retain the Novice Class
- operator license in order to provide an alternate entry level operator
- license opportunity to persons who desire to pursue the purpose of the
- amateur service and who can pass a telegraphy requirement in place of the
- more comprehensive written examination requirement for the codeless
- Technician Class operator license.
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