The (former) First & Second Class FCC licenses you are referring to weren't conbined into the "general class technicians license" (it sounds like you are confising the names of amateur & commercial licenses). Rather, they were combined into the "General Radiotelephone Operator License" (GROL) which was a lifetime license.
The GROL is no longer required for land mobile two-way or broadcast work & is optional. It is only required for working on maritime and avionics equipment. When I got my current job as a Chief Engineer of a FM broadcast station, they had no idea what a GROL was!!!! There is no "FCC 1st class licensed ham". Perhaps you are referring to a licensed ham that also happens to have a GROL (formerly the first/second class radiotelephone), which was NOT a ham radio license. (Despite what some of them thought!!!) ------ Original Message ------ Received: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:47:41 AM CST From: "kc4ih" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: HELP: 2 meter repeater intermod problem from pager transmitters > > > --- In [email protected], JOHN MACKEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hmmm, after 20 years of ham radio, past experience in commercial 2 > way & > > currently working as an Chief Engineer in the radio broadcast > field and > > possessing my Extra Amateur and GROL, I don't know what a "FCC 1st > class > > licensed ham" is!!!!!! > > > It was about 2 am here when I wrote this last night but > If you are the Chief Engineer of a radio station then you should > know that anyone prior to 1984 a person had to hold a first class > FCC technicians license to work on and repair and operate a radio or > TV station. The 1st class and 2nd class were combined in the late > 1980s to a general class technicians license and made a lifetime > license, not to be confused with the technician class ham license. > The fact that the two of us hold an extra class and the other an > advanced class ham ticket was not explained but I assumed that it > would be understood. That is not the problem, its the repeater > intermod. > This reply is the reason that I hate to post to a group such as this. > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
