Subject: ARS License Numbers
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Date: 1/6/2005 6:00 PM Central Standard Time
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Lenof21 wrote:
Take the "grace
period" for example. It should ONLY be included as a separate part
of an
interpretation.
WHY? The license holder isn't prohibited from doing anything
after
midnight of the last day of his/her 10-year-active-license
period...and for two more years into that grace period.
That's simply not true, Len. The holder of an expired FCC amateur radio
license cannot legally operate until the license has been renewed.
This is the second time I've seen you state that mistake here in the
past few days. An expired FCC amateur license carries *no* operating
privleges.
IS there some reason you persist in this obvious error?
I told ya... His Worminess has yet laid his long-tailed ignorance to bare
in a house full of rocking chairs.
There are many, many reasons, all valid, for being unable to renew
prior to the last day of the 10-year period.
Such as?
Death? Coma? Prisoner-of-War (about the ONLY valid reason I can
think of...) ?
FCC allows renewal from 90 days before the expiration date. Renewal can
be done online, or the appropriate forms can be downloaded or ordered
well in advance and the renewal done by mail.
In any event, even if someone cannot renew before the license expires,
they cannot legally operate while in the grace period.
You created an artificial
thing there with your particular interpretation.
Have you read 97.21(b)? It's pretty clear on the subject.
Not to mention the number of times "Enforcement Letters" have been
published in QST from the FCC...Seems Riley & Company have the same
opinion...If your license "expires" on December 31st and you are operating on
January 1st, YOU have a problem!
Come on, Lennie...Suck it it...it ain't that hard to do...Be a man..Own up
to your GLARING error and move on...
73
Steve, K4YZ