[AMRadio] FCC fees, I have been licensed since 1958 and have enjoyed this hobby very much.

[Donald Chester]

manualman at juno.com manualman at juno.com
Fri Oct 30 16:54:20 EDT 2020 wrote:

> if you're 98 years old and license comes up for renewal, $50
> may not be a good investment.

Why not?  You can't take it with you.  Did you ever see the hearse
in a funeral procession pulling a U-Haul? Enjoy it while you can.

As I recall, the last time the FCC was charging fees was sometime
in the 1960s and it was $8 or thereabouts, but I'd have to 
look up the exact dates and amount. Maybe some other member 
of this list has better recollection of the details. But still, looking
at usinflationcalculator.com, I see that $50 in to-day's dollarettes
is equivalent to $8.26 back in 1965.  Appears to me that the proposed
fee is roughly the same as the previous one in terms of real money. 
And about the same as a year's membership to ARRL.

I don't have strong feelings one way or t'other, not enough to 
bother commenting to FCC.

Don k4kyv