[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR97.507]

[Page 615-616]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 97_AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart F_Qualifying Examination Systems
 
Sec. 97.507  Preparing an examination.

    (a) Each telegraphy message and each written question set 
administered to an examinee must be prepared by a VE holding an Amateur 
Extra Class operator license. A telegraphy message or written question 
set may also be prepared for the following elements by a VE holding an 
operator license of the class indicated:
    (1) Element 3: Advanced Class operator.
    (2) Elements 1 and 2: Advanced or General Class operators.
    (b) Each question set administered to an examinee must utilize 
questions taken from the applicable question pool.
    (c) Each telegraphy message and each written question set 
administered to an examinee for an amateur operator license must be 
prepared, or obtained from a supplier, by the administering

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VEs according to instructions from the coordinating VEC.
    (d) A telegraphy examination must consist of a message sent in the 
international Morse code at no less than the prescribed speed for a 
minimum of 5 minutes. The message must contain each required telegraphy 
character at least once. No message known to the examinee may be 
administered in a telegraphy examination. Each 5 letters of the alphabet 
must be counted as 1 word. Each numeral, punctuation mark and prosign 
must be counted as 2 letters of the alphabet.

[54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989, as amended at 58 FR 29126, May 19, 1993; 59 
FR 54834, Nov. 2, 1994; 65 FR 6551, Feb. 10, 2000; 69 FR 24997, May 5, 
2004]