[BC] Re: How we got our first break in radio

[Jim Seaman]

>The only problem is that the wallet sized card did
>have an expiration date.... funny for a "lifetime license"
 
Only the diploma style GROL was issued for a lifetime. The FCC basically downgraded and rolled all 1st phone holders into 2nd class, and grandfathered the diploma GROLs for broadcast. Newly minted GROLs needed to apply for a Restricted Permit to operate broadcast stations. It all became moot a few years later when the license requirements were dropped.
 
 
>They still require a radar endorsement if you maintain shipboard radar. If 
>you have a General and take commercial element 9 (the old broadcast 
>endorsement) they give you a GMDSS Maintainer's license. This is what >replaced the 
>commercial Radiotelegraph licenses. Usually you find the Ship Radar >endorsement 
>on this license this is sort of the new first class license.
>
>Mike
 
 
Sort of.  Chief radio officers on passenger vessels must still hold a T-1, although it’s questionable whether ROs on a freighter, if any still exist, must still have a T-2.  When ships got outfitted with GMDSS equipment, the value of the Radiotelegraph licenses diminished somewhat as the GMDSS operator and/or maintainer licenses were required in addition to the T-1 or T-2.  It depends on how the ship is equipped. The GMDSS Maintainer license also carries the authority of a GROL and can contain a radar endorsement.
 
Regards,
 
Jim Seaman
Chief Engineer
WTEM-WTNT-WWRC-WXTR-WWXT-WWXX
Washington, DC

 

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