[SOC] Am I a ham?

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Your earlier license was
WB2QDG    General Class
THOMAS J MC CULLOCH
20 BOBANN DR
NESCONSET NY 11767

Effective: 30 Sep 1986 Expires: 30 Sep 1996

Your present license details are:

WB2QDG    General Class
THOMAS J MC CULLOCH
20 BOBANN DR
NESCONSET NY 11767
Effective: 03 Mar 1998   Expires: 03 Mar 2008
FRN: 0004134839

Unless you let your license expire and renewed it within the two year grace 
period, there was another license.

A search of the FCC warehouse archives on the internet shows:
WB2QDG    03/03/98    MC CULLOCH, THOMAS J    HA
WB2QDG    11/07/00    MC CULLOCH, THOMAS J    HA    FRN 0004134839

In 2006 a FRN was automatically assigned to your license.

A search of the archives for MC CULLOCH, THOMAS  or MCCULLOCH, THOMAS shows 
no other applications or licenses.

Q.E.D.  You are an exceptional SOC operator - You have managed to have a 
printed copy of a license that neither appears on the FCC ULS Applications 
search, nor in the warehouse search.  I searched for applications and found 
them as far back as 1994, so your previous license

My congratulations, Tom!

73

David N1EA





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom McCulloch" <thom2 at att.net>
To: "Second Class Op Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:54 PM
Subject: [SOC] Am I a ham?


Hi all,
  Well a friend of mine fom our local qrp club here on Long Island ( the
LIQRP club - pretty original, eh?) passed his extra last week and loaned me
his study guide. (In the unlikely event that I eventually pass the extra
exam I promise to continue to operate in a second class manner so my
membership in the SOC will remains intact).

  Anyway, today I decided to see when my General class license comes up for
renewal and so I dug out my ticket.  It says that it was good from June 1996
until June 2006..."oh, oh" I said (well not really, but this is a family
list).  OK now before we get to crazy and call the FCC on me -- my antenna
has been down since last winter and in the true spirit of SOC, rather than
fix it, I just I haven't operated since well before my license's  expiration
date.

So I go to the ARRL site (who I thought was going to notify me when my
license was up for renewal, as a membership benefit) and I looked through
the procedure for renewal...ahh good news, there is a two year grace period
to renew after expiration of the license..."whew", I said (really!).


The ARRL site pointed me to the FCC renewal site and I go there and rember
that in 2000 I filled out something  called an "FRN", and I even wrote down
my FRN number and password.  So I log on and it tells me that my license was
good from March 1998 and expires in March 2008.  I have no idea where these
dates came from.

So do you think I'm a ham?  If you were me would you fix your antenna and
operate, or take advantage of the two year grace period and go watch the
football game?

Seriously, though, if I actually study for the Extra exam and show up at the
VE to take it, will I need my license, like I did in 1965 when I took my
general and had to prove I was a novice?  Or will they check the FRN
database,  QRZ.com also says that my license expires in 2008.  Am I in the
twilight zone?

Thanks for your help with this,
Tom ,
WB2QDG (I think)

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