FCC Dismisses Two Petitions from Radio Amateurs:

eHam.net News — The FCC has turned down two petitions filed in 2016, each seeking
similar changes in the Part 97 Amateur Service rules. James Edwin
Whedbee, N0ECN, of Gladstone, Missouri, had asked the Commission to
amend the rules to reduce the number of Amateur Radio operator classes
to Technician, General, and Amateur Extra by merging remaining Novice
class licensees into the Technician class and all Advanced class
licensees into the Amateur Extra class. In a somewhat related petition,
Jeffrey H. Siegell, WB2YRL, of Burke, Virginia, had requested that the
FCC grant Advanced class license holders Morse code operating
privileges equivalent to those enjoyed by Amateur Extra class
licensees.

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