{"id":1091,"date":"2023-12-06T21:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2023-12-06T21:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:02:15","slug":"two-symbol-rate-questions-removed-from-general-question-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Two Symbol Rate Questions Removed from General Question Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to the FCC eliminating the symbol rate limitations, in favor of a bandwidth limit, two of the General Class license questions are now incorrect and were eliminated from the question pool by the NCVEC Question Pool committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We may see more of this if and when the second part of the NPRM regarding VHF and above limits are approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>SB QST @ ARL $ARLB034<br>ARLB034 NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Two General-Class<br>License Questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ZCZC AG34<br>QST de W1AW<br>ARRL Bulletin 34 ARLB034<br>From ARRL Headquarters<br>Newington CT December 6, 2023<br>To all radio amateurs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SB QST ARL ARLB034<br>ARLB034 NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Two General-Class<br>License Questions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC)<br>Question Pool Committee (QPC) has removed two General-class license<br>questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pursuant to the November 13, 2023, FCC rule change to remove symbol<br>rate restrictions on amateur radio digital emissions, the QPC of the<br>NCVEC has deleted two questions from the General-class question pool<br>because they are no longer correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The web article on the symbol rate restrictions can be find at,<br>http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/arrl-hails-fcc-action-to-remove-symbol-rate-restrictions<br>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General-class questions G1C08 and G1C10 are withdrawn from the pool<br>effective immediately and should be removed from examinations as<br>soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Updated question pool files, including the errata and new<br>information, have been posted on the NCVEC General-class question<br>pool web page at, http:\/\/www.ncvec.org\/page.php?id=369 .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current Element 3 General question pool became effective on July<br>1, 2023, and it is valid through June 30, 2027. The ARRL VEC advises<br>the community to regularly check the NCVEC website at<br>http:\/\/www.ncvec.org\/ for updates to the question pools, which may<br>include errata and withdrawn questions.<br>NNNN<br>\/EX<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the FCC eliminating the symbol rate limitations, in favor of a bandwidth limit, two of the General Class license questions are now incorrect and were eliminated from the question pool by the NCVEC Question Pool committee. We may see more of this if and when the second part of the NPRM regarding VHF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrl-news","category-misc-amateur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlarc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}