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Helping to narrow it down, here is what I remember. All through 1976 I was salivating all over my father-in-laws CB gear. Christmas 1976 she bought me a JC Penney Pinto 23 Channel AM mobile. WHen I got that, I discovered that the fee had dropped from $20 to $4. So I filled out my application, wrote a check for $4 and sent them in. Probably about 5 weeks later I got my license in the mail (KANE-4109!). About a month after that, I got an envelope from the FCC returning my $4 check because the fee had been dropped altogether. THIS part would have all been at the beginning of 1977.
What I don't know is when they completely dropped the license requirement.
Is it possible to be on a lake and have a homing directional beam being emitted from the shore so a person could navigate to that beam's source? For example at night to a jetty.
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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