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No Code For Any Class x5 Days And NO LENNIE ANDERSON!
On Mar 3, 3:02�pm, "Dee Flint" wrote:
"K4YZ" wrote in message s.com... On Mar 1, 7:32?pm, " This demonstrates that Len is not up to speed on application handling procedures. Not being an amateur licensee NOR a voting member of the ARRL may be at fault...however I've been licensed as a Commercial radio operator for 51 years. In that time there were a LOT of changes of "procedure." The privatization of operator testing was a major change some two decades (give or take) ago...BOTH for amateur and professional license testing. Is "knowledge of application handling" an IMPORTANT bit of amateur radio operator knowledge? I don't think so. The NCVEC doesn't think so. *The ARRL and the FCC handle NEW applications first, upgrades next, and vanity applications last. *This is their operating policy. Is it? :-) I'm not going to rush to the FCC website to check that and I don't care to dispute the League on what they say... Afterall some one with an existing license can operate while they wait for the upgrade or vanity call. NOT LEGALLY if their "existing license" is IN their grace period. Hasn't N2EY reminded you yet? :-) New license processing normally takes 5 to 10 days. According to an ARRL VEC VE team leader, N6ZZK, it takes 10 to 15 days. I've talked to Ted and shaken hands with him, am I to believe you over him? *Upgrades also take 5 to 10 days but are done after processing the new licensees. That depends on surface mail delivery from VE teams to the ARRL VEC in Newington, CT. East coasties will get their mail there the first (usually). West coasties (in CONUS) get there next to last; Alaska and Hawaii are nearly last but the island possessions in the Pacific WILL be last on delivering ARRL VEC paperwork to Newington. *At the ARRL they are processing faster than normal despite the increased number of forms to go through as they put on extra staff in anticipation of this. Just so terribly wonderful, ain't it? :-) I haven't seen any photos at the ARRL website that show sweaty workers spending all kinds of hours a day, no one with dark circles under their eyes from all that "overtime." Vanity calls are special processing and are not handled by the VECs (except for renewals). *One must apply directly to the FCC and they take 3 weeks or more. Tsk, tsk. You forgot to mention that you can't get a Vanity call UNLESS you already have a legal operator license. Rather important thing to remember, that... 73, LA |
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