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No Code Test For Any Class for a Week
On Mar 2, 7:32�am, wrote:
On 1 Mar 2007 22:29:30 -0800, " wrote: On Mar 1, 5:17?pm, "Dee Flint" wrote: "robert casey" wrote in message hlink.net... wrote: On Feb 28, 12:56?pm, John Smith I wrote: K4YZ wrote: BEEG GRIN *...just wait a few days... *smirk, smirk How long is it taking the FCC to issue new ham licenses nowadays? * * * * s it still on the order of a few weeks? aybe he'll be getting a 2x2 or a 2x3... Since the FCC now permits the VECs to directly enter the data in the database, it's simply a matter of how quickly the VEC organization can check the paperwork. *hese days it runs about 1/2 week to 1&1/2 weeks. * n anticipation of getting an unusually high number of submittals, the ARRL at least put on extra staff to handle this. * * * *had the test session the evening of Feb 23. *eviewed and mailed the paperwork on Feb 25. oth the new licenses and the upgrades appeared in the FCC database at the end of the day on Feb 27th. *his is actually faster than usual. Vanity license applications take several weeks though. * According towww.wm7d.netfigures, the number of new * issues or updates for 28 Feb 07 was 814. *The number of * Vanity calls issued for 28 Feb 07 was 82. or roughly one tenth of one percent of all licenses in the ARS today not bad for o e day and BTW mine is not in the that total since it was processed on the 26th by the MERAC VEC That would be true, Mark. The ARRL website Search seems to look only through their own VEC's processed records. A more comprehensive Search can be done through the FCC (who do the FINAL license grants) but getting to their specific Search for amateur radio licenses is more complex; the FCC Search involves ALL licenses for ALL radio services unless one indicates specific search areas. According to the wm7d.net statistics, the number of new amateur radio license issues for 1 Mar 07 were 729. That includes upgrades and Vanity calls, Club calls, the whole magilla. A sizeable number and it takes several people at each VEC to sort through the paperwork, accept or reject based on many criteria, etc., etc. If a VEC receives 800 applications from VE teams a day, it would have to process 100 per hour to complete one day's mail-in. For eight people doing processing that means each person would have to do 12 1/2 per hour (if they worked straight through all hours...and few paper-handlers in offices work "straight through"). Complicating the process is USPS delivery if the VECs do it like the FCC does it. The sheer size of the USA means that all the Pacific Island places will get there LAST and Hawaii, Alaska will be almost as late. The ARRL VEC final processing takes place in New England which is almost as far removed from southern California as Hawaii in terms of USPS handling. The ARRL has always been oriented towards east coast thinking and doesn't seem to go for pushing the envelope on handling far-away (from them) USA locations. 73, |
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Eight Days...No Lennie...We'll Call Him "The 7UP Man"..."Never Had It, Nevr Will..."
On Mar 2, 12:40�pm, "
further lied and tried to deceive us about his hinted-to Amateur exam with: On Mar 2, 7:32?am, wrote: and BTW mine is not in the that total since it was processed on the 26th by the MERAC VEC * *That would be true, Mark. *The ARRL website Search seems * *to look only through their own VEC's processed records. HUGE Snip. More mindless pontification with which to deceive the weak minded (ie: Morkie, whom, it seems, has taken Lennie's rhetoric hook, line and sinker...) Sigh. Steve, K4YZ |
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Eight Days..."snip"
On Mar 3, 9:57 am, "K4YZ" wrote:
On Mar 2, 12:40?pm, " further lied and tried to deceive us about his hinted-to Amateur exam with: On Mar 2, 7:32?am, wrote: and BTW mine is not in the that total since it was processed on the 26th by the MERAC VEC ? ?That would be true, Mark. ?The ARRL website Search seems ? ?to look only through their own VEC's processed records. HUGE Snip. More mindless pontification with which to deceive the weak minded (ie: Morkie, whom, it seems, has taken Lennie's rhetoric hook, line and sinker...) Sigh. Steve, K4YZ Lot's of sighs from Robesin. Probably oxygen deprivation to that pin- head brain of his. |
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