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Old 02-20-2016, 07:36 PM   #1
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Default A successful Tech license class

We did good with the class that finished today, Feb 20th. We had 31 take the exam with 27 getting a new Tech license, 1 went on to get his General and only 4 people failed the exam. So, congrats to the new hams. There was a few in the class that didn't feel they were quite ready for the exam. Many of the people were Cobb County CERTS volunteers and there was about 8 Boy Scouts that were successful.

We do it again in April with a projected class about the same size. Cobb County Georgia wants their CERTS volunteers to get a license which makes sense. Anyone in the North Atlanta area that wants to get a license be sure to check the ARRL.org web site for the next class. Just click on "Classes" and look for the Powder Springs location.

Ham licenses is approaching 800,000 (799,345 as of today) and should reach it within the next 2 months. Of course there are a number of SKs that didn't have licenses cancelled and there are a little over 12,000 club licenses are in the mix. There is still one Tech Plus license in existence which should disappear and revert to just Tech when it comes time for renewal. Techs make up about 1/2 of the licenses and Generals slightly outnumber Extras for the other half.

We had our first expired license holder get reinstated at our last regular monthly test session he got his General back and will be testing for Extra next Monday evening. He let his license lapse about 10 years ago.

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