I have my 2nd Class Radiotelegraph and as near as
I could tell, it really is nothing but wall
paper. because I got my Extra back when we had to
sit the exams before the FCC, I didn't have to
take the CW test. I don't think that shipboard
operators need to have any CW capability: it's
all GMDSS now. I got the 2nd class simply because
it was still available and I wanted it before the
FCC decided to stop issuing them. If I recall,
the complete GMDSS licensing requires some time
in a Coast Guard school for full certification.
Kim N5OP
At 01:21 PM 2/24/2007, you wrote:
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 09:42 -0700, JAMES HANLON
wrote: > This is a snip from this week's ARRL
Letter that will be of interest to those
considering a Commercial CW License. > > Jim,
W8KGI > > FCC says no commercial credit for
prior military, ham radio, experience: > The FCC
has told a California radio amateur that it will
not waive a > commercial license application
rule on the basis of his Amateur Radio Morse >
code qualifications. Last April, Robert E.
Griffin, K6YR, of San Luis > Obispo, applied for
an FCC First Class Radiotelegraph Operator's
Certificate > -- known as a T1 license --
requesting a waiver of §13.201(b)(1)(iv).
That > rule says T1 applicants must have a
year's experience "sending and receiving >
public correspondence by radiotelegraph at a
public coast station, a ship > station, or
both." Oh, that's simpler than it was 48 years
ago when I got my 2nd and ship's radar
endorsement. Then the experience had to be AT
SEA under the command of a holder of the first.
Coast station didn't count for that experience
(likely a free to the ship apprentice ship).
Though as I recall it only took 6 months, not a
year. I suppose ships sparks today though they
spend more time on a satellite circuit or fixing
computers and VCRs than on HF still are required
to have the first CW on US ships. Otherwise its
nothing but exclusive wall paper. I passed my
2nd (and 1st phone) 48 years ago, but the CW
license hasn't yet paid for its cost (and it was
free other than trolley fare to the examination
site and the day skipped from school). -- 73,
Jerry, K0CQ, All content copyright Dr. Gerald N.
Johnson, electrical engineer
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