[AMRadio] Fw: ARLB021 FCC Application Fee Proposal Proceeding is Open for Comments

[craig yoho]

I don't usually chime in, however.      Here's my dime.      This is how
things start.  This year $50 , 4 years from now $75, 10-$150.     Where is
this money actually going ?    Is this to pay for our share of the spectrum
so big business does not interfere?    Is this to secure our frequencies
from being farmed out to whomever?    Is it to subsidise the lack of income
from the FCC, so that commissioners and their expansive staffs continue to
make large takehome?   Latest data I could dig up on that was 2018 where
there were 1492 employees of the FCC where the AVERAGE salary was
$134,990.13 a year with total salaries in excess of $200.73 Million.
Where does it go ?   My point being when does it end?   When you give up
your freedom, liberties and privilege, you will never get them back.  Ask
me about my healthcare, my retirement healthcare, my pension, those items I
will never get back.    What does this say about discouraging the outside
community, those younger generations.   To you and I $50 every few years is
nothing, however as most of you know those rates will increase until there
is pushback from the community, or until they dwindle down the maximum
usable frequencies and the service goes away.  Pushback now , fight now
when it can be scuttled immediately, or try to push back when the rates get
jacked up every few years.  I guess I don't look at the immediate, I look
at long term.  $50 now could be $250 then.  When its out of your control,
there is very little you can do to stop it.      Just my take , an opinion
from the younger generation of Amateurs.    de KB3RHR - Craig

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 2:23 PM W. Harris <nbcblue at hotmail.com> wrote:

> So a ham, even on a fixed income, can spend hundreds, maybe thousands of
> dollars on ham equipment can't afford a license fee of $50 every 10 years?
> Really?
>
> Bill - K5MIL
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>
> Good arguments Rob, however, some hams are or may be on a fixed income and
> a
> one time  $50 fee at renewal every 10 years could cause a bit of trouble.
> I
> am advocating from that perspective and the fact it is a voluntary
> organization even though I can afford the fee.  Many hams may be inactive
> most of the time, but in the event of a major catastrophe would come out of
> the woodwork to help.
>
> Jim
> W5JO
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Atkinson
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> To: Jim Wilhite
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> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Fw: ARLB021 FCC Application Fee Proposal Proceeding
> is Open for Comments
>
> I don't have a problem with it.   If it happens okay.  If not, okay.
> I used to pay $8 just to take the license exam.  If I failed, the fee
> was not refundable.  I therefore made sure I'd pass.  No memorizing
> for me.  That was back in the early 1970s.  50 dollars is probably the
> same adjusted for inflation.  In fact, if they charged $50 to take the
> test it would cut down on frivolous applicants and people testing
> again and again until they pass, and not learning anything.   By
> frivolous I mean people who want to get a ticket just to see if they
> can, with no intention of ever getting on the air.  I run into "hams"
> like that around here often.   It will also curb vanity call sign
> hoarders. A license is good for 10 years.  $50 is $5 / year.  I have a
> hard time believing an active ham will balk at that.  It will also cut
> down the bloated bogus ham population.   Does anyone think all 700,000
> hams in the U.S. are active?  We're all inactive for one reason or
> another at times, but judging by ham band activity I estimate
> liberally, that there are 50K active hams.
>
> The ARRL is against it.  I have heard off the record that they, or
> some of them, fear hams will drop their membership to pay the fee.
> That's ridiculous.  It's NOT $50 every year.
>
> 73
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
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