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Welcome
THE WEBSITE OF THE
RCRA
AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
Serving Ripley County and Southeastern Indiana hams
since
1982 !
Repeaters : 146.805, 224.460, 444.550
The election of officers results are as follows:
Pres: Dave Stoneking: KB9UVG
V Pres/Treas: Delbert Felix KC9HRO
Sec: Marilyn Gray N9XZF
The Amateur of the Year was awarded to:
Dave Rayner, AI9D Milan
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FCC ISSUES NPRM TO ELIMINATE CODE REQUIREMENT
Tuesday, July
19, 2005 - the FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to eliminate morse code from all amateur licensing requirements.
The proposal states that:
"Based upon the petitions and comments, we propose to
amend our amateur service rules to eliminate the requirement that individuals pass a telegraphy examination in order to qualify
for any amateur radio operator license. We believe that this proposal, if adopted, would (1) encourage individuals who
are interested in communications technology, or who are able to contribute to the advancement of the radio art, to become
amateur radio operators; (2) eliminate a requirement that we believe is now unnecessary and that may discourage amateur service
licensees from advancing their skills in the communications and technical phases of amateur radio; and (3) promote more efficient
use of the radio spectrum currently allocated to the amateur radio service. We solicit comments on our tentative conclusions.
We decline to propose any other changes to amateur radio service licensing or operating privileges in this proceeding."
The full text can be read as a PDF file at this link:
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