TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
      
    RW> RQ>> If you are a licensed Technician class operator and you upgrade   
    RW> RQ>> to General, you can immediately use your new privilages as long   
    RW> RQ>> as you append /AG to your call when operating within those new   
    RW> RQ>> privilages. For Amateur Extra, it is /AE.   
      
    RW>> This is basically what I referred to above.   
      
    TW> EXCEPT you said "Licence IN HAND".   
      
   Your words misled the wannabe ham who doesn't have a license in hand, thus   
   no operating priviledges when you walk out of the VE test...   
      
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
   --- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-31012   
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