09-03-2017, 01:57 PM
A change to foundation license conditions.
Allow 100W. Nearly every ham radio you can buy these days is capable of 100W. 10W really is pointless these days. Saves all the abuse from hams that "just know" F calls are running more than allowed power. Arbitrary limits of 10W, 25W and 50W make no sense.
Allow three letter suffix - Did anyone notice that there are no VI prefixed call signs on issue any more? That wasn't the case earlier this year.
Allow Digital modes on all current bands. Now that the three letter suffix is here
hock: what's stopping the use of digi modes?
Allow more bands. Digi Mode only operation on extra bands. A precedent already exists in the U.S. I would offer 30, 20, 17, 12, 6 (above 52MHz) and 23cm. Finally, I see no issue with digi voice modes for 2m and 70cm such as P25, DMR and the multitude of proprietary digital voice modes that abound these days.
I see real benefits for this class of license yet there would still be significant incentive to upgrade to standard or advanced - principally, voice communication and access to even more bands.
If you want to complain about the inequity of the three license levels I suggest you start your own topic so these waters are not muddied. Let's see if we can keep this topic to F call privileges only.
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For extra bands I would only offer 20m, 6m (above 52MHz) and 23cm
Allow 100W. Nearly every ham radio you can buy these days is capable of 100W. 10W really is pointless these days. Saves all the abuse from hams that "just know" F calls are running more than allowed power. Arbitrary limits of 10W, 25W and 50W make no sense.
Allow three letter suffix - Did anyone notice that there are no VI prefixed call signs on issue any more? That wasn't the case earlier this year.
Allow Digital modes on all current bands. Now that the three letter suffix is here
hock: what's stopping the use of digi modes? Allow more bands. Digi Mode only operation on extra bands. A precedent already exists in the U.S. I would offer 30, 20, 17, 12, 6 (above 52MHz) and 23cm. Finally, I see no issue with digi voice modes for 2m and 70cm such as P25, DMR and the multitude of proprietary digital voice modes that abound these days.
I see real benefits for this class of license yet there would still be significant incentive to upgrade to standard or advanced - principally, voice communication and access to even more bands.
If you want to complain about the inequity of the three license levels I suggest you start your own topic so these waters are not muddied. Let's see if we can keep this topic to F call privileges only.
Added in 1 hour 6 minutes 49 seconds:
Edit:
For extra bands I would only offer 20m, 6m (above 52MHz) and 23cm