Ham Radio Questions

No more code requirement. As ChuckV1 wrote just pass the Technician test and provide a copy of your old license and you're back in business with your former class. There are several places on line that have the test question pool of about 430 questions. Of those 35 will be on the test. Give them a try. You might be ready to test now.

There are no low band repeaters per-se. There ARE low band remote base stations around controlled mostly on UHF, and most if not all are owned privately since you as the operator on UHF are a control operator for the remote transmitter.You obviously also need to possess the class license of the transmitter you control even though you are coming in on UHF (tech and above). There are exceptions tho.

There are a very few repeaters down as low as 6 Meters around the country as well, but the majority are VHF/220/UHF

Art Davis

Great news for anyone whose license has expired and is beyond the two-year grace period. Under the new rules all they would need to do is now is pass the Element 2 (Technician Class) examination and their original privileges will be reinstated.

http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-okays-changes-to-amateur-radio-exam-credit-test-administration-emission-type-rules

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0609/FCC-14-74A1.pdf

The new rules went into effect on July 23rd, 2014.

So Art dig out those old licenses and pass the Technician exam and you are back on the air again.

73 Chuck W5KAV

I'm thinking you will have to test again. There is no code required anymore. That was dropped about 9 years ago. There are 3 levels now - Technician, General and Extra.

Others will chime in I'm sure.