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Grex Radio Item 66: License upgrades
Entered by krokus on Wed Jul 11 22:26:38 UTC 2007:

I'm wondering how many people have upgraded their licenses in the past
couple years? First there was the reduction of the Morse Code speed
requirement to 5 wpm, for all classes that still have a Morse requirement.

Now with the Morse requirement haveing been eliminated, there has been
a flurry of upgrades across the country, yet I hear/see nothing here.

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by krokus on Wed Jul 11 22:27:45 2007:

I guess I should specify that this is for Amateur Radio, for those that
didn't know.

I'll also step up and say that I've upgraded. I'm just awaiting the
new piece of paper to prove it. :) (Yes, I know the CSCE proves it,
but that's not what I meant.)

#2 of 12 by nharmon on Thu Jul 12 01:05:36 2007:

Not I. I got my Tech no-code in '96 and never really cared to upgrade.

#3 of 12 by krokus on Sat Jul 14 03:00:16 2007:

Did you renew your license last year? If not, you might want to
do so before the windows closes.

#4 of 12 by nharmon on Sat Jul 14 15:22:24 2007:

Yep, I renewed as soon as I could.

#5 of 12 by ball on Thu Jul 19 17:37:50 2007:

I would like to upgrade to General class but what with
college, work and chasing a toddler around I don't have much
time left over for study.

#6 of 12 by krokus on Thu Jul 19 18:13:58 2007:

I can imagine. I just had some time, due to the end of
the term at school.

#7 of 12 by ball on Thu Jul 19 21:01:27 2007:

I'm attending two colleges, whose semesters are offset
slightly.  I think my fall semester may begin just before
my summer semester ends!  :-o

#8 of 12 by krokus on Wed Jul 25 19:50:15 2007:

Neither of those schools has a policy in place prohibiting attending
classes at another institution?

#9 of 12 by ball on Wed Jul 25 23:21:41 2007:

No, neither does.

#10 of 12 by gull on Wed Aug 22 16:29:49 2007:

I have an Advanced license, and I haven't upgraded.  Upgrading to Extra
would certainly be easy, but I don't particularly care about the extra
spectrum privileges, and it's kind of cool having a license class that's
no longer issued.

#11 of 12 by danr on Sun Dec 23 01:44:29 2007:

I thought the same as you, gull, until about a year and a half ago. I 
always joked that I was going to be the "last living Advanced Class 
licensee in the US." I broke down and upgraded, though, when some of 
the new ARROW members, including Joe, N8OY, a 16-year-old kid, got his 
Extra.

It's kind of cool to not have to worry about band limits. I especially 
like working DX on the low end of 40m.

#12 of 12 by gull on Thu Dec 27 17:54:20 2007:

Fair enough.  Currently, though, I can't work any bands lower than 10
meters, and the allocations for 10 meters on up are the same for
Advanced and Extra.

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