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

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:14:18 -0400

The $12 is NOT a government license fee...

The government allows the volunteer examiners to charge for their services
(to recover their costs but not make a profit).

Amateur licenses are free from the FCC - except for a 'vanity' call sign if
you want one.
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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Miroslav Skoric" <[email protected]>
To: "Kenneth Stringham" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: [Packet] Re[2]: OT: Ham rules

> 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?
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Misko YT7MPB                           mailto:[email protected]
>
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