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FCC to Require Email Addresses on Applications

Posted: 03 Dec 2020 11:27 AM PST
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From the ARRLÂ*12/02/2020:


Amateur radio licensees and candidates will have to provide the FCC with an
email address on applications, effective sometime in mid-2021. If no email
address is included, the FCC may dismiss the application as defective.

The FCC is fully transitioning to electronic correspondence and will no
longer print or provide wireless licensees with hard-copy authorizations or
registrations by mail.

AÂ*Report and Order (R&O) on “Completing the Transition to Electronic
Filing, Licenses and Authorizations, and Correspondence in the Wireless
Radio Services� in WT Docket 19-212 was adopted on September 16. The new
rules will go into effect 6 months after publication in theÂ*Federal
Register, which hasn’t happened yet, but the FCC is already strongly
encouraging applicants to provide an email address. When an email address
is provided, licensees will receive an official electronic copy of their
licenses when the application is granted.

Under Section 97.21 of the new rules, a person holding a valid amateur
station license “must apply to the FCC for a modification of the license
grant as necessary to show the correct mailing and email address, licensee
name, club name, license trustee name, or license custodian name.� For a
club or military recreation station license, the application must be
presented in document form to a club station call sign administrator who
must submit the information to the FCC in an electronic batch file.

Under new Section 97.23, each license will have to show the grantees
correct name, mailing address, and email address. “The email address must
be an address where the grantee can receive electronic correspondence,� the
amended rule will state. “Revocation of the station license or suspension
of the operator license may result when correspondence from the FCC is
returned as undeliverable because the grantee failed to provide the correct
email address.�


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