N2EY wrote:
In article , Mike Coslo
writes:


Until the F.C.C. can receive and grant renewals immediately from all
Hams, there will have to be such a rule. Otherwise they would have to
determine some time lag, say a week, and then tell you you have to
calculate the number of days in ten years minus 1 week. Remember it will
be different for many hams, because it depends on how many leap years
there have been since you got your ticket, and whether you got your
ticket before the leap day if you got the ticket during a leap year.


Remember too that there's a 90 day limit in the other direction - if you send
in a renewal too early (more than 90 days before expiration) they send it back.


I'm not sure why that 90-day rule exists. For many years you could get
a simultaneous renewal whenever you modified. I was a ham for a long time
before I ever actually "renewed" because every upgrade and address change
resulted in a renewed license too.

Perhaps the vanity call system stopped the simultaneous renewals.

Perhaps. What I would *really like* would be the ability to renew my
license for say thirty years. That way I wouldn't have to worry about
forgetting about it.

- Mike KB3EIA -