Daryl Stout wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    DS> Roy...   
      
    RW@>> Your words misled the wannabe ham who doesn't have a license in   
    RW@>> hand, thus no operating priviledges when you walk out of the VE   
    RW@>> test...   
      
    DS>   There is text on the CSCE, noting that "the CSCE by itself does not   
    DS> confer operating privileges"...and that "you must already have a   
    DS> valid amateur radio license to get on the air".   
      
   Which also makes my case that a new successful license app still has to   
   wait until his name appears on the FCC's rolls.   
      
    DS>   In some cases, the examinee gets credit for a separate element   
    DS> ONLY, but if he doesn't have the lower elements to go with it (i.e.   
    DS> he passes the General, but has failed the Technician), he still has   
    DS> no license. And, after 365 calendar days, the CSCE is worthless,   
    DS> anyway...and he has to start over.   
      
   That's what Part 97.9 says too.   
      
      
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