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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I believe from my reading there will be three classes of licenses...Technician, General and Extra.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Three test elements (2, 3 and 4). One element for each class license. An extra would have to take elements 2, 3, and 4. A General elements 3 and 4 and a Technician only element 2.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Walt/K5YFW</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: hfsig-bounces@lists.tapr.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>[<A HREF="mailto:hfsig-bounces@lists.tapr.org">mailto:hfsig-bounces@lists.tapr.org</A>]On Behalf Of Trevor AKA</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:53 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: TAPR HF Modes SIG Mailing List</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [hfsig] Re: [Flexradio] The final nail in the coffin of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Morse?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>--- Anthony.N.Martin@seleniacomms.com wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Note that the CEPT are planning a new intermediate class of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> amateur licence for international recognition & roaming.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> It would be nice for the US to have forethought and look</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> to align it's licence structure at this juncture with the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> CEPT.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I presume it will mean that the Techician Class will all become General Class.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>There's already some similarity between USA and UK licence structures. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>- US Advanced/Extra exam technically equates to UK Advanced(Full)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- US General/Technician exam equates to UK Intermediate</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> (Except US General/Tech's get to run 1.5 Kilowatts instead of the 50 watts</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2> Intermediates have in the UK!) </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The US currently has no equivalent to UK Foundation. Their equivalent used to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>be called the US Novice (it was so easy even 5 year olds managed to pass it)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>The US Novice was scrapped by the FCC several years ago. It's users were</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>permitted to run 200 watts on segments of the HF and VHF bands.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Regarding the CEPT "Novice Class" currently being introduced. The steps to do</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>this were put in train many years ago before Foundation existed. Several CEPT</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>administrations now wish to instroduce a 3rd licence class into CEPT which</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>would equate to UK Foundation.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>73 Trevor M5AKA</FONT>
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