By Barry Evans, AB8WI

Technician Classes!

MARC and Clermont Amateur Radio Emergency Services (CARES) will offer a license prep course for the Technician license.

If you have anyone in mind who you think would make a good Ham, please start working with them now to see if you can get them to take the class. Ninety-nine percent of our previous students have come from member recruitment, so let’s get busy folks. More Info

Pass the word on to people that you know that would be interested in getting their Technician license.

When: Classes: September 22 & 29, from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Testing: October 4 at 7:00 PM

Where: Clermont County Emergency Operations Center

Contact: Barry Evans, AB8WI at Barry.Evans@RaymondJames.com

By Lyle Hamilton, AB8SH

MARC will again offer a license prep course for the Technician license. Barry AB8WI is doing a heck of a job with this and we have set dates and places as follows:

Last day to register: Friday, March 9

Class Orientation: Saturday, March 10th at the Milford City Building, City Council Chambers from 10:00AM to 12:00PM

Class Days: Saturday, March 24th & Sunday March 25th at the Milford City Building, City Council Chambers from 9:00AM to 4:00PM both days

Club Sponsored VE Session: Tuesday, April 10th at Sporty’s Pilot Shop, located at the Clermont County Airport in Batavia. Exams begin promptly at 7:00PM

If you have anyone in mind who you think would make a good Ham, please start working with them now to see if you can get them to take the class. Ninety-nine percent of our previous students have come from member recruitment, so let’s get busy folks. More Info

MARC is sponsoring a class for those that are interested in upgrading to General class. The class starts Wednesday February 14th, 2007.
The location will be announced as soon as the site is confirmed. For further details, please contact Chuck at cjbeal@fuse.net

Morse Code Requirement Ends

The FCC has modified the Amateur Radio Service rules, eliminating Morse code exam requirements. The new rules become effective at 12:01 AM Eastern Time Friday February 23, 2007.

The rule changes will grant limited HF operating privileges to Technician licensees on 80, 40, 15, and 10 meters.

Once the new rules take effect, Technicians can upgrade to General by passing a single written exam (Element 3) and to Amateur Extra by also passing the Element 4 written exam. No Morse code test will be required.

For more information, please visit the ARRL web site at www.arrl.org/FCC/Morse.

All bets appear to be off as to when the FCC might make a final decision on deleting the Morse code requirement. Last July, an FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Order (NPRM&O) in WT Docket 05-235 proposed to eliminate the Element 1 (5 WPM) Morse code requirement for all license classes. Most observers expected the Commission to release a Report and Order (R&O) to that effect by the end of this year, but even that timetable could prove optimistic, based on what the Commission will say publicly. Read the rest of this entry »

Congratulations to Jerry Latham, N8OON for passing his extra test earlier this month!

Extra Class

Congratulations to Barry Evans,KC8ZIA (New Call AB8WI) and Bob Beckelhimer, WA2HOV for passing their Extra class tests!

Lyle Hamilton, AB8SH - March 22

The National Council of Volunteer Examination Coordinators (NCVEC) has released a new question pool for Element 2, the Technician Written Exam. The NCVEC has been receiving considerable input from its member Volunteer Examiners (VE’s) about the relevancy of some of the questions that have traditionally been included in the pool and has produced a new pool which I think more closely resembles what a “present day” Tech looks like. More Info

Seventeen people signed up for the Milford Technician class that was held in March. Out of the seventeen people that signed up for the class, fourteen actually made it to the first class and Eleven finished both sessions. Conratulations!

A special thanks go out to Lyle Hamilton AB8SH, Barry Evans KC8ZIA, Rick Miller AB8ON, and Chuck Beal N8CJB for the great job they all did!

New Technicians:

Steven Hagey - KI4OQD
Thomas Caley - KD8DIS
Tom Kloecker - KD8DIR
David Jones - KD8DIU
John Harrell - KD8DFV
Eric Bose - KD8DFU

Waiting to Test:

Debora Caley, Elizabeth Caley, Ed Dadosky, and Chris Miller.