[OKDXA] Speaking Of PROcrastination...
Nelson Derks
ac5up at windstream.net
Wed Jun 6 00:30:54 EDT 2007
...and that's pro as in PROfound procrastination.
One of the quirks in my personality is that I tend to come and go with
my hobbies. I've been off the radio thing for better than two years now
'cuz the license expired on June 6, 2005. Haven't Q'd or kerchunked
since. Yeah, I got the letter from W5YI a couple of months ahead of that
but never got around to mailing it. No big deal. I have two years of
grace period and I'm a world class procrastinator so this is well within
my scope of experience. Something like a year ago I poked around the FCC
web site and found it's easy to renew a license if you know your FRN and
password. I recall receiving a letter from the FCC about six years ago
with that info and as soon as I find that letter I'll be good to go.
Never did find the letter.
Monday was two days shy of the grace period expiration. Went up on the
FCC web site and looked up my license. Hey... There's my FRN. Then I
poked around and found the "reset your password or security question"
option. Filled in the form and punched the go-go button. The web site
told me I should hear back from an agent within three days. Terrific. I
only have two days, but at worst I can re-test if this doesn't work.
Nothing to complain about. It's my fault that I waited this long. Got an
e-mail reply in about an hour. Click this, do that, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Looks easy. Made it through the security question and password thing all
the way to the renewal form. Hot Damn, I'm cooking now...
Checked back an hour or so later and I'm still expired. Checked back
this morning and here's what I found:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1082119
Not only did I renew exactly ONE DAY before the grace period ended, but
the renewal is good for ten years from the actual date of renewal... Not
the original date. This means I'm good until June of 2017 and if you
average it out my license is on an eleven year cycle. Sounds familiar...
Almost Cosmic.
In any case, some would regret their procrastination on something this
easy, but I think it's almost cool that I took it that far and made it.
Now I'm thinking I should order some QSL cards. Or join the ARRL.
Maybe I will.................................................. When I
get around to it.
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