The discussion of the Novice ticket reminded me of a web page that I 
sent to this list in 2008.

That message follows.

While I'm sure these points will be covered on that page, perhaps with 
more accuracy, I will mention a few things here anyway.

First, the WN prefix went away sometime late in 1976, or early 1977, 
and was replaced by the standard 2 by 3 call groups that were in use 
for each district at that time. In the case of the 5th district, a 
friend received a WD5 novice call in early 1977. His was the first 
non-WN Novice license I ever encountered.

The license went from a 1 year term to 2 years in 1968, but remained 
non-renewable until much later. Two meter phone privileges were 
dropped at that same time, but 2 meter CW privileges remained until 
the 10 meter CW privileges came along in the mid 70's.

Another thing that went away when the license was expanded to a 2 year 
term was the rule which allowed a person to hold a Novice license, and 
a Technician license concurrently. I only knew 2 or 3 people who did 
that.

The thinking was to give a person who had a Tech ticket some HF CW 
privileges in order to build up code speed, since CW wasn't really big 
on 6 or 2 meters. In the case of the people that I knew, it didn't 
work. They never did move beyond the Technician ticket.

With that duel license structure, the Novice privileges, along with 
their associated WN or KN call sign, were still only good for 1 year.

BTW, for those who may not know, until the early 1980's, the 
Technician license only allowed privileges on 50 MHZ and above.

Now for my original message from just over 3 years ago.


K5XU


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:41 PM
Subject: Novice Historical Home Page


In keeping with the recent thread of most memorable experiences, check 
out
this site.

http://www.novice.bappy.com/

Mike, K5XU


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