There are 3 different classes of a amateur ham radio license. Amateur technician class, Amateur general class, Amateur extra class. What are the difference in all of them?
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Your frequency privileges is the main difference!
See these sites for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=amateur
http://www.qrz.com/testing.html
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The technician license gives you Morse code (called CW) in small sub-bands on the 80 meter, 40m, 15m and 10m bands. You are also limited to 200w of transmitted power. On 10m, you also get RTTY (radioteletype) and other data modes (PACTOR, PSK31 and others) and single sideband voice (SSB). You also have full amateur privileges on VHF, UHF and higher Amateur bands.
General basically gives you full amateur privileges except on some HF sub-bands reserved for Advanced (no longer issued) and Amateur Extra class operators (80m, 40m, 20m, 15m).
Amateur Extra gives you full Amateur privileges.
socrates is a little behind the times.
The current rules are Technician is VHF/UHF and Tech privledges in 10M voice (28.1 to 28.3 morse code and 28.3 to 28.5 SSB).
CW (morse code) is no longer required for any license class.
General class allows limited HF and all VHF/UHF
Amateur Extra allows all amateur bands and modes.