[SADXA] Words to the wise.

[Jerry Wothe]

I have used W5YI many times for our three calls.
W6XI
> On December 1, 2022 at 6:09 PM Ron Jones <ronk7rj at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> The best $8 I spend every 10 years is to W5YI. I let them do it for me.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 11:56 AM Darrel <demerson2718 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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>      ........Stephen Wright
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