Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!Ozaki.FX@XEROX.ARPA From: Ozaki.FX@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: other countries & no-code - (nf) Message-ID: <12153@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:26:47 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12153 Posted: Tue Aug 7 12:26:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 20:00:10 EDT Lines: 30 From: JE1RYHI guess this is a little bit out of time, but here is the situation of Japan. We have 4 classes of license -- Telephony class, Telegram(CW) class, 2-nd class, and 1-st class --, the first one is the easiest one and does NOT require code exams, unlike the other three. Therefore, about 85% to 90% of Japanese hams are of this class. We do have several limitations with this class, such as they can run 10-watts only, the bands allowed to operate are 3.5MHz, 7M, 21M, 28M, 50M, 144M, 430M, 1200M, and so on. Because of this EASY exam license, JA have so many hams -- maybe #1 population in the world -- and even 5-yrs old kid could pass the exam. They say that this no-code license have done many good things and also bad things. One good thing is that (as I mentioned above) so many hams means so many equipments, and YAESU, KENWOOD, ICOM and other Japanese rigs become the best qualities in the world now(does anyone disagree with this???). Negative impact with this license is that some hams (I wouldn't say 'many') operate just like CBers, because the exam without code is so easy that even 5-years old kid can pass -- that means they really don't have to know anything about technical stuff. Well, I would not say whether this situation is good or bad, but this is what happened with no-code license in Japan, anyway. Now what do you think? --... ...-- . ... ---.. ---.. -.. . .--- . .---- .-. -.-- .... /Yuki(JE1RYH, ex WB0SXU)