RESTRUCTURING HAS NOW ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!

Amateur Restructuring is Here: Three License Classes, One Code Speed (December 30, 1999) -- Amateur Radio will get a new look in the new millennium. The FCC today issued its long-awaited Report and Order in the 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review of Part 97--more commonly known as "license restructuring." The bottom line is that starting April 15, 2000, there will be three license classes--Technician, General, and Amateur Extra--and a single Morse code requirement--5 WPM.