Old, old, news! See the FCC's response to the request by the Puerto Rico Amateur Radio League: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-07-814A1.pdf
And ARRL Letter, dated March 2, 2007, half way down the page: FCC Says No to Petition Calling for Exams in Languages other than English: http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/07/0302/ It wasn't even an ARRL Push, but it's still "good" fodder for some. Pete, wa2cwa On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:36:40 -0400 "Mike Sawyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bob wrote: > > Hay All just received a copy of this...Do not know if it is true but > if > it is we all need to take action with the ARRL... > Stupidity reigns if true... > > Bob W1PE > > ---------------------------------- > > I'll bet this has something to do with the FCC recent finding. I > beleive > someone petitioned the FCC, not sure if it was the ARRgghhL or not, > about > changing a rule in Sec.97 with regards to administering Ham exams > in > Spanish. This was due to the VEC's down in Puerto Rico not being > able to > translate from Spanish to English and visa versa. If memory serves > me, the > FCC denied the petition stating that there were already rules > governing how > exams are administered and that the petitioning group, would be > better > served going before the group of VEC's. > I may have some of the details wrong but I think that is where > this all > came about. Check the FCC public affairs page because I beleive that > is > where I read it. > Mod-U-Lator, > Mike(y) > W3SLK > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
