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EDITED BYBRYAN HAS TINGS NS1B
Apprentice Class?
The push lor a no-code licence I. g ather­
Ing more steam. Citing their support from
AMSAT, TAPR, and Goldwater, the South
Coast Amateur Technical Group, a Melbourne,
Florida ARC, filed with the FCC for the
creation of a ecce-nee entry-level amateur license.
The " Apprentice Class" Iicket would
replace the current Novice license. Apprentice
licensees would have access to all modes
and bands above 30 MHz and a lull 1500
Watts maximum power output, but the license
is good lor only one 1O-year, non-renewable
term.
Space Coast suggests the same testing
procedure as for the current Novice classtwo
examiners with General Class or higher
licenses unrelated to the examinee, over the
age of eighteen, and not commercially involved
in amateur radio . The proposal impacts
only on the current Novices, who would be
granted Technician privileges for their license
term s at the time the Apprentice Class was
created.
Expecl more such proposals to cross the
FCC's plate in the near future. A recent survey
by CD Magazine, to which nearly 4500 people
have responded so far (especially unusual,
considering that the respondents used their
own postage), show the no-coders leading the
pro-coders by a 60/40 margin.
Siddall
Congratulations to DavId Siddall
K3ZJ, o ne of amateur radio's
greatest supporters i n Washington,
DC. Dave has been named
Assistant Chief of Law for the
FCC's Mass Media Bureau, and as
such, he will be responsible for the
legal review of that bureau's major
items. No stranger to the Washington
scene, Dave served as Senior
Attorney in the FCC's Pol icy Bureau
. Prior to thai, he was a Legislative
Attorney with the Con gressional
Research Service of the
Library of Congress. K3ZJ is the
former president of both the Potomac
Valley Rad io Club and the
Capitol Hill Amateur Radio Society.
73BBS
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. You may also download from
73 Magazine again invites all heme-brewers to turn their hot solder into
cold cash and prizes, and to get their name in print to boot. All projects have
a chance 10 appear in the magazine , and we will handsomely reward the
authors 01 the best 01 these.
Now for the bounty. Ramsey Eleetronics swootel'l8d the pollrom their line
01frequency counters. First prize is S3OO, a 1o-year subscription 10 73,and a
CT·1251 .25 6Hz frequency counler. Second prize is $150, a two-year sub,
and a CT-QO 600 MHz frequency counter. Third prize is $75, a two-year sub.
and a CT-70525 104Hz lrequencycounter. All this is in addition10!hepayment
fN8l"/ author recei."s for J)l.Iblishing in 73.
Conlest Rule.
our growing library of share-ware and public
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sysop online.
Some may recall Iss' year the brief revival of
the 73 BBS. cut short by a hard-disk crash,
and the subsequent reallocation 01 our IBM
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Good Work!
Congrats also to two o utstanding members
of the ham commu nity. The Dayton
Amateur Radio Association (DARA) named
Bill Pasternak WA61TF as 1989 Rad io Amateur
of the Year. Pasternak, founder of Westlink
Report, has been the foremost supplier of
amateur radio related news to hamdom.
The Westlink Report news series appears
in hard copy every two weeks, and can be
heard weekly on scores of repeater systems
throughout the US. In addition, Pasternak
founded and sponsored the " Y OUI'Ig
Ham of Ihe Year Award," and was a leading
producer of the award-wi nning 3O-min-
$$ HOME-BREW IV $$
1. Entries must be received by 1 July 1989.
2. To enter, wrlle an article describing your best home-brew construction
pro}ect and submit it to 73. II you've never writtlln lor 73, Hnd an SASE lor a
copy 01 our Wriler's Guide, or download it from CompuServe (HamNet
lorum, Ubrary • ., filename ''73WRlr'). Be sure to slate on the submission
that it is !of th8 Home-brewlVCOfIIBSt.
3. Here', the real challenge: The lOlal cost 01 your project must be under
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