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January 23rd 05, 08:04 PM

In article .com,
writes:

Steve Robeson K4YZ wrote:
Subject: ARS License Numbers
From:
Date: 1/6/2005 6:00 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: . com
Lenof21 wrote:

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.

It's just a mistake, Steve. Len Anderson obviously doesn't understand
97.21(b).

Tsk, tsk, tsk. The Nun of the Above simply didn't understand
that his/her/it leg was pulled. [androgynous behavior makes
gender identification difficult]

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...) ?

Well, someone could be ill, or busy with work, family, volunteer
activities,
travel, moving, natural disaster, military service, etc.

FCC doesn't care. If a ham lets his/her amateur license expire, they
can't legally operate until it is renewed. Such renewal is valid when
it shows up
in the FCC database - you don't have to wait for the paper license to
show
up.

All of this is *extremely basic* regulatory stuff, clearly stated in
97.21(b), not somebody's opinion or interpretation.

Tsk.

What is most interesting is the fact that someone like
Len, who has told us how the regulations should be
changed for so many years, should be so ignorant of such
a basic rule from Part 97.

Tsk. The Nun of the Above, who designs and builds his own
"state of the art" vacuum tube based radios in the 1990s, is
seemingly unaware of solid-state technology having overtaken
vacuum-state some three decades prior.

The Nun of the Above has constantly made his old-time radio
heroes to be pioneers of "firsts" despite absolutely NO radio
broadcasting transmitter copying the AM adaptation of Reggie
Fessenden done in public demonstration on 1906 (special
carbon microphone in series with antenna lead of spark trans-
mitter). Yet the Nun wishes to rap all knuckles with his/her/it
ruler when such pioneering radio heroism isn't met with
enthusiastic acclaim.

The Nun of the Above constantly refers to old regulations,
including those made by government radio regulating agencies
which no longer existed after 1934. The Nun also applies
his/her/it's ruler to knuckles which do not recognize his/her/it's
truism that morse code testing is a "necessity" for all new
amateur licensees' privileges of operating below 30 MHz on
amateur radio bands. All simply MUST do so...as it has always
been done...no good reasons given.

That striking ruler is again applied whenever an NCTA dares to
question his/her/it's claims of the efficacy of morse code mode
over and above all other modes (which it isn't, but that is besides
the point to any PCTA).

The Nun of the Above is an ultra-strict literalist who is unable to
find a life beyond the newsgroup nor employment in radio-related
industry and disavowing any relationship to professionalism in
the radio-electronics industry.

Must be some sort of Catholic thing. What's troubling all these
heavenly fodders is lots and lots of individuals nailing theses on
the doors of the Church of St. Hiram saying that morse code
testing must GO and make the "church" open to all citizens who
have an interest...an interest and not a desire to dumb themselves
down with old, archaic requirements that have no usefulness.

Ave, Imperator!

Posted on 23 Jan 05