[BCVHFA] Notice of Proposed Rule Making

[Carl Morgan]

By the Commission:

   I.introduction

In this /Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Order, we propose to 
amend Part 97 of the Commission's rules regarding administration of 
examinations and examination element credit for licensees in the 
Amateur Radio Service. Specifically, in the /Notice of Proposed Rule 
Making /(/NPRM/) we propose in response to a petition for rule making 
filed by the Anchorage Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (Anchorage VEC) 
to examination credit for expired amateur operator licenses, instead 
of requiring former licensees to retest.

[1] In conjunction with this change, we propose to shorten the grace 
period during which an expired amateur license may be renewed and to 
revise the vanity call sign system correspondingly. We also propose 
to reduce the number of volunteer examiners needed to administer an 
amateur license examination, and we seek comment on amending the 
rules to permit remote test administration.

Finally, in response to a petition for rule making filed by the 
American Radio Relay League, Inc. (ARRL), we propose to amend the 
Amateur Service rules to allow amateur stations to transmit certain 
additional emission types,  [2] but we deny ARRL's request for a 
blanket waiver pending the resolution of the rule making proceeding.


Complete details of the proposal may be found 
at 
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2012/db1002/FCC-12-121A1.pdf