[TVARC] FCC Reduces Proposed Fees to $35

[Daniel McKinney]

I wonder when it’s to go into effect!    de KA9YKB

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:24 PM Mark Graybill <saundby at gmail.com> wrote:

> The FCC has reduced the proposed fee for amateur radio and GRMS license
> transactions from $50 to $35.
>
> Still to much to my mind, particularly as the per-transaction costs to the
> FCC are practically nothing--they could reduce the costs even more by
> allowing more of the VECs direct access to their databases like W5YI has,
> rather than having a functionary who has to transfer information from a VEC
> to the database, introducing delays, potential for error, and so on.
>
> If I thought the money was going to honestly benefit amateur radio, for
> example, paying for enforcement, then I would support a fee. However, the
> funds received go into the government's General Fund, which, as far as
> amateur radio is concerned, makes that money disappear.
>
> ARRL article:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-reduces-proposed-amateur-radio-application-fee-to-35
>
> Mark, W8BIT
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