[CW] OT: FCC Petition for Lifetime Amateur License

[Danny Douglas]

The thing I see with this request is that we might not even know someone died, or was in an institution, etc. and would never cancel the ticket. We could quickly have more than a couple million tickets out there, and less than half of them activie. Though it wouldnt sound so bad, it would jack the data bases pretty badly. Id almost bet we approach that percentage now, with 10 year tickets. It wold cost the ARRL a lot of money, sending out postcards, trying to get all these people to sign up. hehe 

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From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net> 
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:38:08 PM 
Subject: Re: [CW] OT: FCC Petition for Lifetime Amateur License 



It's been that way since the very first licensees. But they did issue comparable callsign: if you were W1TC and moved to z Louisiana, you'd get W5TC if it was available our K5TC, or another W5 two later callsign. 

73 

DR 
On Feb 25, 2016 5:17 PM, "Danny Douglas" < n7dc at comcast.net > wrote: 



I would add a request that callsigns die with the holder. Its my name in ham radio. I hate to work someone, thinking I know him, to find out its the next person up. 


From: "Ron Youvan" < ka4inm at gmail.com > 
To: "CW Reflector" < cw at mailman.qth.net > 
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:32:23 AM 
Subject: Re: [CW] OT: FCC Petition for Lifetime Amateur License 

David J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: 

> Off Topic: ARLB008 

> FCC Seeks Comments on Petition to Grant Lifetime Amateur Radio Licenses 

> SB QST ARL ARLB008 
> ARRL Bulletin 8 ARLB008 

> >From ARRL Headquarters 
> Newington CT February 24, 2016 

> ARLB008 FCC Seeks Comments on Petition to Grant Lifetime Amateur Radio 
> Licenses 
/* snip */ 

The first down side of this proposal is: when a HAM dies his call 
sign will not automatically drop back into pool after their renewal 
date. (I think there is a grace period of a year or two now?) 
-- 
Ron KA4INM - Youvan's corollary: 
Every action results in unwanted side effects. 
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