By James Miccolis, N2EY, from eHam
It's a trivial thing, yet historic. We're about to see a US amateur radio license class disappear, an event which has only occurred one other time since 1951, when the Conditional went away in the 1970s.
The Technician class license was created in 1951 as a special-purpose amateur-experimenter's license for those only interested in "the ultra-highs". Over time and many rules changes its privileges and test requirements were changed, until by the 1980s the...
