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Ham license issue
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 |
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Ham license issue
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 |
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"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. |
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"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 -- add a 2 before @ |
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Ham license issue
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 |
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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 |
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"Gordon Wedman" wrote in message news:8wV0f.1820$yS6.1635@clgrps12... 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. No VHF license required in the US as long as it is a recreational vessel and is operated within use waters. "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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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Ham license issue
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 |