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

[manualman at juno.com]

Look at it this way; amateur radio licensing began in December 1912; as
far as I can tell, there has never been a fee; so after 108 years, a fee
is now being considered; for the paranoia crowd, I think it's long
overdue; overhead costs don't get any smaller as the years progress. If
the $50 per 10 year fee goes through and unhappiness messes with your
mind and pocketbook, there's always short wave listening and no license
required radio.

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com



On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 15:21:35 -0400 craig yoho <yoho411 at gmail.com> writes:
> 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