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Advisory to Amateur Radio
license/upgrade applicants: Use your FRN! (Mar 8, 2007)
-- ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC) urges all
Amateur Radio license and upgrade applicants to use their FCC
Registration Number (FRN),
if they have one, when completing Form 605, not their
Social Security number. The FCC asks applicants to register via
the FCC's COmmission REgistration
System (CORES), to obtain an FRN, and it requires
applicants to use their FRNs when filing Form 605. The FRN
uniquely identifies an applicant in all transactions with the FCC
and avoids the need to provide a Social Security number on the
application form. ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, says that
if her department submits license data to the FCC using a Social
Security number when the applicant already has an FRN, the FCC
rejects the data because an FRN already exists. Somma also reminds
applicants and Volunteer Examiner teams to attach any Certificate
of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) for
element credit to upgrade applications. Using your FRN and
attaching any needed CSCE to your Amateur Radio
application in Form 605 will eliminate delays in obtaining your
license or upgrade.
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Revised ARRL Band Chart
available (Feb 22, 2007) -- A new ARRL band chart
reflecting all changes to the FCC Amateur Radio Service rules as
of February 23, 2007, is available for downloading
on the ARRL Web site in either black and white or color versions.
Created by ARRL Senior Technical Illustrator, Dave Pingree, N1NAS,
the attractive new chart represents a major change from earlier
designs. This is the same chart featured in the eight-page
"Welcome" tear-out section in March QST
(following page 48). The entire QST tearout also is
available for downloading
in PDF format.
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It's Official! Morse Code
Requirement Ends Friday, February 23 (Jan 24, 2007 [REVISED
Jan 26, 2007 14:15 ET]) -- Circle Friday,
February 23, on your calendar. That's when the current 5 WPM Morse code
requirement will officially disappear from the Amateur Radio Service Part
97 rules in accordance with the FCC's Report and Order (R&O)
in the "Morse code proceeding," WT Docket 05-235. Beginning
on that date, applicants for a General or Amateur Extra class Amateur
Radio license no longer will have to demonstrate proficiency in Morse
code. They'll just have to pass the applicable written examination. Publication
of the new rules in the January 24 Federal Register started a
30-day countdown for the new rules to become effective. Deletion of the
Morse requirement -- still a matter of controversy within the amateur
community -- is a landmark in Amateur Radio history.
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PSK for
Beginners (Aug 6, 2006) -- You may have heard about
PSK31, a fairly new mode of communication that's getting quite
popular with hams. With PSK, you use your home computer with your
radio to send and receive digital signals with other hams. The
signals come through the radio, are fed into the computer and are
decoded by software as the words being sent appear on the screen.
The computer then turns the words you type into a signal that is
sent through your radio to the ham you're talking to. It all works
amazingly well, and pretty simply at that. With that in mind,
here's a basic explanation of how to get involved in PSK31.
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Part 97 Amateur Radio Service
§97.1 Basis and purpose.
The rules and regulations in this Part are designed to provide an amateur radio service
having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles:
(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a
voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing
emergency communications.
(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the
advancement of the radio art.
(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for
advancing skills in both the communications and technical phases of the art.
(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained
operators, technicians, and electronics experts.
(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international
goodwill.
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