AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.

N6oij


Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com

I got a marine radiotelephone operators license (I think that's what
they called it, you know, the one you get by sending in a cereal box
top and a small check to the FCC) in 1980. If I can find it, is it
still valid?

--

Roger Long



"Gary G" see.signature@bottom wrote in message
...
AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.

N6oij


Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com

Marine SSB is not the same as Ham so you don't need the same licenses.
For pleasure craft use, in Canada, you only require your VHF license.
Pretty sure it is the same in the USA.

"Gary G" see.signature@bottom wrote in message
...
AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.

N6oij


Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com

And of course there is 27 MHz CB which HF and can be SSB.

Gordon Wedman wrote:
Marine SSB is not the same as Ham so you don't need the same licenses.
For pleasure craft use, in Canada, you only require your VHF license.
Pretty sure it is the same in the USA.

"Gary G" see.signature@bottom wrote in message
...

AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.

N6oij


Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com

Correct, but some licenses are easier to get than others. Using SSB
on the marine bands requires you to fill out a form. SSB on ham
requires one to expend some brain power. A General Ham ticket is
not technically required, but SSB is limited to the 10M band which
isn't all that useful for general communications.

Doug, k3qt

"Gary G" see.signature@bottom wrote in message
...
AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.

N6oij


Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com

Gary G see.signature@bottom wrote in
:

AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.


You need General or Extra to operate HF. Code at 5 wpm will soon be
HISTORY, whether the old fogies at ARRL like it or not.

--
Larry
73 DE W4CSC

NNNN

"Roger Long" wrote in
:

I got a marine radiotelephone operators license (I think that's what
they called it, you know, the one you get by sending in a cereal box
top and a small check to the FCC) in 1980. If I can find it, is it
still valid?


Valid for life. You ARE required to change your address, etc., on the FCC
database you gave them in 1959 to current information, however.

--
Larry
Mine says 20J0121 as its "callsign"....(c;
old fart....My CB callsign started with 20W at that time, too.

"Doug Dotson" dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote in
:

10M band which
isn't all that useful for general communications.


Hell, 20 meters isn't all that useful in these awful solar
conditions....(c;

Echolink contacts I've made, recently, had all 599 RSTs, though!...
I talked to some friends in Berner Oberland, Switzerland, through their
mountaintop UHF repeater just yesterday.

--
Larry

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:02:31 -0400, Larry wrote:

Gary G see.signature@bottom wrote in
:

AFAIK, no FCC license allows HF (SSB) band
transmission without an appropriate
license. This means that one needs General or greater.
If the pictue has changed, please let me know.


You need General or Extra to operate HF. Code at 5 wpm will soon be
HISTORY, whether the old fogies at ARRL like it or not.

Currently, that is what I thought.

FCC is debating no code. However, I wonder why? The
demise of HF hams would free up spectrum for other uses.
Nowadays, all spectrum is valuable.

SSB on boats could be useful. So far, cell phones and
VHF/UHF transceivers are quite handy.

Gary G.
N6OIJ --... ...--

Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com

In article ,
"Roger Long" wrote:

I got a marine radiotelephone operators license (I think that's what
they called it, you know, the one you get by sending in a cereal box
top and a small check to the FCC) in 1980. If I can find it, is it
still valid?

Marine Radiotelephone Operators Permits are renewable and good for 5
years, last time I looked. (admittedly a few years back) What I suspect,
you are refering to is a Restricted Radiotelephone Operators Permit,
which is a Lifetime Permit. The difference is that the MROP is required
for operation of a Ship Station aboard a Commercial Vessel, or a
Coast Station, and a RROP is for all noncommercial operations, internal
and external, to US Contiguious Waters. Of course, Alaska Operations
have a Special Exemption to all Operator Licensing Rules, go figure....


Bruce in alaska
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