<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">France: Ham Radio exams and 60m band</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The French digital amateur radio society <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">DR@F</strong> reports the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE) intends to make changes to the amateur radio exams and permit the WRC-15 60m allocation <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">France currently has a single 40 question HAREC amateur radio exam, however, one point is deducted for each wrong answer on the paper. <br style="box-sizing:border-box">The good news is this rule is to be scrapped and a wrong answer will simply count as nil points.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">It seems DGE also plans to introduce exam questions covering DSP, Sampling, Nyquist, Convolution, Anti-aliasing, and ADC/DAC.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">DR@F additionally report that French radio amateurs will gain access to the WRC-15 60m band 5351.5-5366.5 kHz Secondary with 15 watts EIRP.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">See the DR@F Twitter feed at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://twitter.com/DigitalHam" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://twitter.com/DigitalHam</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">DR@F website in Google English<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/FranceDRAF" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://tinyurl.com/FranceDRAF</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">May 2018 DR@F respond to DGE consultation <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2018/may/fdr-at-f-respond-to-dge-consultation.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2018/may/fdr-at-f-respond-to-dge-consultation.htm</a></p></div>