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From: Ozaki.FX@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: other countries & no-code - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:26:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  7 12:26:47 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 20:00:10 EDT
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From:  JE1RYH 

  I 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?
  
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  /Yuki(JE1RYH, ex WB0SXU)