[Kenwood] Ham renewal turnaround

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:32:43AM -0800, Walt R Mitty wrote:
> Pardon the inquiry which is not Kenwood specific (though I do use
> the TM-V7a):
> 
> I was at the FCC site about 3 weeks ago and attempted to 1) renew
> my recently expired Tech no-code.  I also, within the same online 
> transaction, tried for new call which appeared to be unused.   Paid
> via credit card - using their online method.  
> 
> Curious what the turnaround time was for receiving approval notice.
> Within a week and a half, I already received approval on the GMRS
> transaction done at the same session.  Both transactions were viewable
> though both have since dropped from view, indicating that the
> transactions
> are completed by FCC (?!)
> 
> I tried QRZ.com and see that my old call N7VWG is still expired and no
> record of the requested call N7BFI. Credit card dinged for payment for
> both GMRS and ham transactions.
> 
> Thanks for any insight.  Not worrying about this....yet.  Just curious on
> a slow Saturday.
> 

You haven't been keeping up with the ARRL letter, etc.  With the
anthrax mail stuff, a bunch of the FCC's mail got sent somewhere for
screening and they haven't found it all and have determined that some
of the vanity paperwork is missing.  Since they give equal priority for
electronic and mail requests for vanity calls, they are holding all the
requests until they resolve the missing mail.  The FCC is making
progress and as of a week ago only had three missing ones where they
haven't been able to contact the applicants (they know who they are,
since the payments did get processed).  Since you renewed as part of
the same transaction, that part probably won't be processed until they
can also handle the vanity call.

73, Bob N7XY