Proposed changes to amateur licence conditions

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I had a Novice licence for a year, at the bottom of a sunspot cycle. Power for that licence was 10w AM and 30w PEP SSB, and limited to only 80, 15 & 10m.

I did OK locally and DX-wise SSB only, and I recall I had something like 80 countries for the DXCC without chasing very hard.

Antennas were dipoles and a vertical.

So it is doable with low power, not always easy, but it was motivation to upgrade, which is one of the reasons for the power level