[Ham-Mac] Re: FCC Discrimination Against Mac Users

[Richard Kriss]

John, K8AJS

I was sorry to hear that you confirmed the same problem I had doing an
ONLINE FILING of a modification.  I was hopeful you found a solution.  I
tried and had the same failure with Safari, Explorer and Mozilla.  Yes, I
did report the bug to the Safari development team and even tried in OS9.

I called the FCC and the web page guru said parts of the web page
[http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/index.html] is not compatible with the Apple
Macintosh operating systems (OS9 and OSX) and they have no plan to change.
His suggestion to do ONLINE FILING was to use someone's PC.  I did and it
worked. I posted the Mac OS issue to the Apple discussion group and did not
receive one comment.  I don't think Apple cares and neither does the FCC.

The bottom line is if you need to process an ONLINE modification to your ham
license, use a PC and you will not have problems.  If you try to use your
Mac,  you will just get frustrated and it will be a big time waster.

73 de Dick, AA5VU

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From: Richard Kriss <aa5vu@qsl.net>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:52:28 -0500
Subject: Re: FCC Discrimination Against Mac Users

John,

There is no issue with the CORES/CALL SIGN button you used to change your
FAX number.  The issue is with the 'ONLINE FILING' button.  Try that one and
see what happens when you try to process a modification to your FCC license.

Dick, AA5VU

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