ARLA/CLUSTER: ARRL procura opiniões para uma nova licença de entrada para o radioamadorismo equivalente à categoria 3 em Portugal

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

New Entry Level License for USA?

The ARRL is seeking opinions concerning a possible new entry level license

They say: An Entry Level License Committee was established by the ARRL
Board of Directors and appointed in September 2016. As part of its
ongoing work, the committee is gathering member input and will make
recommendations to the Board for possible rules changes to submit to
the FCC.

The result could mean changes to the Technician license, but it could
also be an additional, but simpler, license with privileges that would
give a newcomer a taste of most facets of ham radio from HF to VHF and
UHF.

The committee has created an online member survey. Please complete and
submit the survey no later than April 7, 2017. Survey results will be
published. http://www.arrl.org/license-1

Source: http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-seeks-opinions-concerning-possible-new-entry-level-license

Currently the lowest level US license is the Technician which regarded
as equivalent to UK and Australian Foundation. Technician requires a
weekend training course to pass and permits 200 watts output on four
HF bands and 1500 watts output on all bands above 50 MHz.