Greetings,
I pass this on from the ARRL Regulatory information Department:
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Just for the record, [it is incorrect to state:] "ARRL has requested, and
FCC approved that in order to obtain a deceased relatives call, one had to
have a license grade equal to or higher than the long gone relative's
class".
ARRL's only petition for reconsideration in the Vanity program was, except
for persons eligible to apply in gate 1, to require that applicants be
limited to call signs from the call area appropriate for their mailing
address. The FCC granted that only for regions 11, 12, and 13, that is,
Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean and Pacific Insular Areas. It denied it
for the continental US. Our petition would not have delayed the onset of the
program. There were four other petitions filed by individuals or clubs
dealing with other issues.
The petition dealing with license class necessary to get a deceased
relative's call sign was filed by a private individual; ARRL had nothing to
do with it. That individual has also filed one of the four new petitions for
reconsideration. By the way, the change does not require that an applicant
have a license class equal to or higher than the original holder, it
requires that they have a license class eligible to hold that call sign now.
The difference is that many old timers holding 1x2 call signs issued in the
1920s had only General or Advanced class licenses, since (except for the
Novice class) it wasn't until 1978 that the FCC introduced a system that
differentiated call signs by license class. So even if somebody's
grandfather only had an Advanced class license, under the new rules the
applicant would still have to have an Extra class license to get it.
73,
Norm Bliss, WA1CCQ
Regulatory Information Branch Supervisor
ARRL HQ
nbliss@arrl.org
Telephone: (860) 594-0200
FAX (860) 594-0259 (att. NFB)
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