[ScanIndiana] IN license grants LOOK CLOSER

[gary lane]

YOU GO BOY!!!!!!!




--- Dan <ka9dzm@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello All
> A BIG Thanks to Rich for posting the Indiana License
> grants...
> 
> and a hint to all that look at them....
> 
> NOTICE ANYTHING????
> 
> I'll give you a hint.... Mass licenses coming
> through for the past year for
> public safety agencies, departments and businesses
> that have held an FCC
> license for years... ALL WITH NEW CALL SIGNS!!!
> 
> I have experienced this first hand, I KNEW our
> volunteer fire dept. license
> was ready to expire, and saw in these grants the
> listing for Osgood Vol Fire
> Dept. and all the information for the three
> frequencies we hade been
> licensed on for years...
> 
> Wait  Wait  Wait  for the paper to com from the FCC
> to sign adn send back
> for the renewal... NOTHING
> The license expired on May 1, 2000.... By mid May, I
> am thinking, HEY the
> Chief got it and sent it back.....NOPE
> 
> Ok  it went to the Town, and they signed it and sent
> it back.......NOPE
>  We checked everyone, and finally toward the end of
> May I'm calling the FCC,
> and of course " WE only send those out as a
> courtesy, there is no mandate
> for your to have that form sent, it's all up to you
> to get it done etc etc
> etc
> And of course, you can do it on the internet... BUT
> THE SITE WAS DOWN every
> time I tried... then, YESSSS  It was up and NOPE
> Gotta register  ....
> Got all that done, and on June 2, 2000  I was ready
> with everything to get
> this license renewed..........
> 
> NOPE!
> Sorry  you only have a MONTH grace period!!!!! They
> don't care  that YOU
> CALLED, EMAILED, REGISTERED...etc (Amateur Radio has
> one year grace.. better
> keep an I out, we will be re-testing if they do this
> to us!)
> 
> so  I was HOT  and reproted tot he board what had
> happened. I got the prices
> to get us a new license....of course  YOU HAVE TO
> COMPLETLY RE-COORDINATE
> EVERYTHING!!
> SO $700 was too much and a bright fireman said he
> could get this taken care
> of, turn it all over to him, and he was going to the
> State Representative,
> Senator, etc etc
> YEA RIGHT!
> 
> FAST FORWARD  to April 2001... Still no license and
> finally we just PAID the
> dam money for their scam...and in December, we
> finally got it...
> 
> NOW, what did I start this email off with....??????
> -hundreds of NEW LICENSE every week, for people that
> have had them forever!
> 
> I'm not spouting the gunman on the hill theory,
> but.... seems that if it
> walks like a duck, looks like a duck  and farts
> like... you know what I
> mean...
> Someone is making a killing off us.
> 
> Look at all those Public Service Indiana licenses,
> all new call signs.... I
> know for a fact that almost half the fire
> departments in this county alone
> have had to get an entirely new license for the same
> reasons we did! ( We
> all got them at the same time in 1960 for Civil
> Defense radio system getting
> ready for the big missle launch)
> 
> OK  Im done
> soapbax  knocked over as I exit
> 
> IF ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES, YOU ARE GOINGT
> TO BE ONE TIRED
> S.O.B.!!!!
> 
> Dan Mulford
> Osgood,IN
> Amateur call KA9DZM
> EMAIL: ka9dzm@earthlink.net
> 
> MY HOMEPAGE
> http://home.earthlink.net/~ka9dzm
> (updated 1-29-02)
> 
> 9-1-1 Coordinator, Greensburg City Police Dept.
> http://www.seidata.com/~grbgpd
> 
> Deputy Director- Ripley County Emergency Management
> RIPLEY CO. E.M.A. WEBPAGE:
> http://ripley-ema.fallsky.com
> 
> Pres. -Ripley County Repeater Assn. Amateur Radio
> Club
> http://rcraham.tripod.com
> 
> OSGOOD VOL. FIRE DEPT webpage
> http://www.fire-ems.net/firedept/view/OsgoodIN
> 
> Have  a  SAFE   day!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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