[SOC] Am I a ham?

[Tom McCulloch]

Hi David,
  Thanks for doing all of that research for me.

So is the bottom line that I am ok until March 3, 2008?

If so I guess I'll have to go and fix my antenna :(


Tom,
wb2qdg (and maybe others)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Am I a ham?


> 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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