[SADXA] Words to the wise.

[Jim Wysocki]

Having spent half of my career in the public IT sector, I can say with 
some authority that it's riddled with people who routinely produce 
buggy, convoluted, and unmaintainable computer systems.  I spent a 
considerable minority of my time in weeding the grossly incompetent ones 
out of my staff.  It turned out to be a very long and time-consuming 
process.  Most managers aren't willing to go through that pruning effort.

Jim  W9FI

On 12/1/2022 11:56 AM, Darrel wrote:
> I couldn't agree more.
>
> I tried to help the XYL (N7UGL) renew her license last month.  The FCC 
> and CORES system is truly horrible. In the words of my son (N7PTE) who 
> with my help has just renewed his own license through the system, 
> "It's an amazingly convoluted process!"  It's both convoluted and buggy.
>
> Cheers,
>       Darrel, aa7fv.
>
> On 12/1/2022 10:50, Wes wrote:
>> Like some probably do I filed my license away in a file cabinet 10 
>> years ago and forgot about it.  A few days ago I got an email from a 
>> helpful ham who had visited my QRZ page and noted that my license had 
>> expired a few days earlier.
>>
>> This began a horrible experience with the FCC licensing system with 
>> FRN, CORES, multiple user names and passwords (with multiple 
>> requirements), links that failed to open and so forth. I finally 
>> waded through it all, made my payment and sat back to wait.
>>
>> This morning I got an email with a link to visit to download my 
>> license, since the government is forgiving student loans and can't 
>> afford to actually mail a license.  (It's highly presumptive in my 
>> mind to assume that everyone has Internet and email, but that's 
>> another issue.)  Almost needless to say, like most things in 
>> government, the link didn't work.  Thoughtfully, the FCC provided a 
>> telephone number to call in case the link didn't work.  I guess they 
>> know their system.  I called the number.  Remarkably, I got a cheery 
>> woman who informed me that they were having trouble with the system 
>> and to keep trying.
>>
>> I did and after an interminable wait while it downloaded, I got my 
>> license.   I guess I should frame it and put on the wall.
>>
>> Wes  Still N7WS
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