WEBVTT NOTE Volunteer Examiners, Upgrades, and Operating Abroad 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.958 The day you upgrade. This is the most immediately useful material in the whole subelement, because it applies to you within hours of passing. 2 00:00:10.958 --> 00:00:20.672 You pass Element 3 at a session and receive a Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE). Three facts follow: 3 00:00:20.672 --> 00:00:36.632 Question. On which of the following band segments may you operate if you are a Technician class operator and have an unexpired Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) for General class privileges? 4 00:00:37.532 --> 00:00:43.052 Answer. On any General or Technician class band segment. 5 00:00:43.652 --> 00:00:50.749 You may use your new privileges immediately, you do not wait for the database. But: 6 00:00:50.749 --> 00:01:04.069 Question. Until an upgrade to General class is shown in the FCC database, when must a Technician licensee identify with "AG" after their call sign? 7 00:01:04.969 --> 00:01:10.929 Answer. Whenever they operate using General class frequency privileges. 8 00:01:11.529 --> 00:01:28.793 So: "KF1XXX temporary AG." Only when you are using the new privileges, on Technician segments you identify normally. And once the upgrade appears in the database, the suffix stops. 9 00:01:28.793 --> 00:01:39.815 Question. How long is a Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (CSCE) valid for exam element credit? 10 00:01:40.715 --> 00:01:44.659 Answer. 365 days. 11 00:01:45.259 --> 00:01:59.390 A year to use the credit. If you pass Element 3 and want Extra, you have 365 days to sit Element 4 with the General credit standing. Volunteer Examiners. 12 00:01:59.390 --> 00:02:05.855 The whole examination system is run by volunteers under FCC oversight. 13 00:02:05.855 --> 00:02:11.443 Question. Volunteer Examiners are accredited by what organization? 14 00:02:12.343 --> 00:02:16.566 Answer. A Volunteer Examiner Coordinator. 15 00:02:17.166 --> 00:02:38.846 A VEC, the ARRL VEC and W5YI are the largest, accredits VEs and coordinates sessions. The FCC certifies VECs; VECs accredit VEs. What a VE may administer depends on their own class: 16 00:02:38.846 --> 00:02:48.766 Question. What license examinations may you administer as an accredited Volunteer Examiner holding a General class operator license? 17 00:02:49.666 --> 00:02:52.443 Answer. Technician only. 18 00:02:53.043 --> 00:03:09.683 You must hold a class above the one you are examining. A General may examine Technicians; an Extra may examine anything. This is why Extra-class VEs are in demand. Who must be present: 19 00:03:09.683 --> 00:03:16.389 Question. Who must observe the administration of a Technician class license examination? 20 00:03:17.289 --> 00:03:23.849 Answer. At least three Volunteer Examiners of General class or higher. 21 00:03:24.449 --> 00:03:33.859 Three, minimum, all qualified to administer that element. Eligibility to be a VE:. At least 18 years old.. 22 00:03:33.859 --> 00:03:51.969 Holding an FCC-granted amateur licence of General class or above, and that is the criterion for a non-US citizen too. Citizenship is not a requirement; the licence is. Element credit for expired licences. 23 00:03:51.969 --> 00:04:00.234 Question. Who may receive partial credit for the elements represented by an expired amateur radio license? 24 00:04:01.134 --> 00:04:14.203 Answer. Any person who can demonstrate that they once held an FCC-issued General, Advanced, or Amateur Extra class license that was not revoked by the FCC. 25 00:04:14.803 --> 00:04:27.723 Held once, not revoked, that is the whole test, with no time limit. Someone who let a General licence lapse decades ago retains the element credit. 26 00:04:27.723 --> 00:04:39.803 Question. What action is required to obtain a new General class license after a previously held license has expired and the two-year grace period has passed? 27 00:04:40.703 --> 00:04:50.525 Answer. The applicant must show proof of the appropriate expired license grant and pass the current Element 2 exam. 28 00:04:51.125 --> 00:05:09.285 Element 3 credit survives; Element 2 must be retaken, because the Technician pool has changed beyond recognition since. Operating remotely across borders. Two questions that look similar and have different answers. 29 00:05:09.285 --> 00:05:19.783 Question. When operating a US station by remote control from outside the country, what license is required of the control operator? 30 00:05:20.683 --> 00:05:26.363 Answer. A US operator/primary station license. 31 00:05:26.963 --> 00:05:42.203 The station is in the US, so US rules and a US licence govern. Where your hands are does not change what the transmitter is doing or where it is doing it. 32 00:05:42.203 --> 00:05:52.723 Question. When operating a station in South America by remote control over the internet from the US, what regulations apply? 33 00:05:53.623 --> 00:05:58.504 Answer. Only those of the remote station's country. 34 00:05:59.104 --> 00:06:09.462 Same principle, opposite direction. The rules that apply are those of the place the transmitter is, not the place the operator is. 35 00:06:09.462 --> 00:06:21.574 That single rule answers both, and it is worth holding in that form rather than as two memorised cases. Check yourself. You pass Element 3 this morning. 36 00:06:21.574 --> 00:06:37.032 May you work 20 metre phone this afternoon, and how do you identify? You hold General. May you administer an Extra exam? You control a station in Argentina from your desk in the US. Whose rules? 37 00:06:43.032 --> 00:06:58.065 Yes, immediately, on any General or Technician segment. Identify as "call sign temporary AG" whenever using General privileges, until the upgrade appears in the FCC database. No. 38 00:06:58.065 --> 00:07:14.112 A VE may only administer examinations for classes below their own; a General may administer Technician only. Argentina's, the rules of the remote station's country, where the transmitter is.