[Packet] Re[2]: OT: Ham rules

[Miroslav Skoric]

Hello Kenneth,

Saturday, April 19, 2003, 5:08:35 PM, you wrote:

KS> Examination Coordinators (VEC). There are a number of
KS> organizations in the US that certify VECs. At the
KS> moment the cost for Amateur Radio Service license is
KS> in the neighborhood of $12. This fee is set annually
KS> by the FCC.

Is that $12 for an examination, or for a new ticket or something else?
And  how  often  do you need to pay it (once, every ? years when renew
the papers etc)? Here we have one personal radio permission related to
the  ham itself. And as many radio permissions as number of radios you
have.  Ex.  5 radios = 5 separate radio tickets + 1 ham ticket, in sum
that is 6 papers. All of them void in 5 years so they must be renewed.
The paper work is done via the ham union. The membership is mandatory,
so  case  you  haven't  renewed the union's membership for a period of
time  (these  5  years), they force you to pay all the member fees for
all  5 years before you apply for renewing the papers. That's not all.
When  a  radio  permission  voids,  you  have to carry your radio to a
service  to  be  officially  checked  to  prove  that comply with some
(unknown)  rules and standards. It makes me wonder how they could test
the  brand  new Japanese radio with their old instruments, HI. Anyway,
they  force  you to do that and, of course, to pay for that every five
yrs again and again ... Comparable to your country?

Btw,  do you have a license for all radios you have i.e. one paper for
all of them or you have separate tickets for every particular radio?

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Best regards,
 Misko YT7MPB                           mailto:skoric@ptt.yu