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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2019, 05:13:40 AM »

Yea, why pay the FCC to do something you can easily accomplish without the bureaucracy. Even if you don't have your own printer, most libraries do and will let you load some nice parchment and make a couple copies for a few cents per page. Also probably part of the reasoning behind the FCC not making hardcopies as well is because almost anyone can do it. Part of the American "can do" spirit vs. hiring it done.
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73, Stan
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2019, 06:04:40 AM »

As an option for those who don't want to do it.
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Greg
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2019, 06:18:53 AM »

Wow didn't know printing a document was so labor intensive and expensive. Maybe we should get the government printing office involved. That way your ticket will cost at least $200. And the taxpayers an extra $300.

Then we would need a tax subsidy to offset the $200 for those who say they cant afford it. Another $400 to the taxpayers.

Then the document has to be designed by the engraving department, another half a million to the taxpayers.

Then it needs to be approved by congress because of the tax expenditure. Another million or more to the taxpayers.

Great idea! Spend other peoples money! So what was my option then?
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73, Stan
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2019, 06:37:39 AM »

Did you read the first post in this thread?
This would be an option that neither you nor anyone else would be required to do.
As an option you could do it if you wanted to and pay a fee, or choose not to do it and not pay a fee.

You know, like...freedom.
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Greg
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #19 on: May 15, 2019, 04:39:45 PM »

So this morning I got an email from The FCC with my license re-up in it.
I printed it out but then thought about how drab it looked on my own white printer paper.
So I called them up and made a suggestion.

     I had heard that the reason they discontinued the nice green, water marked, cardboard licenses is that it was costing them to much for supplies/printing and shipping etc.
So my suggestion was that for whatever that cost was plus 100% they could offer the nice old cardboard licenses to those who would pay for them.
I told the lady I am vain enough to cough up the dough and maybe there were others?
She said she would pass it up the chain and see what happens.

Maybe if a few people called it would encourage them?
(877) 480-3201 option one

Greg

It's a nice suggestion, but I doubt it will fly.  One of the reasons the FCC lowered or eliminated a lot of the fees a couple of years ago is it cost them more to collect them than the money they were getting from them.  I suspect anything dealing with license certificates would be the same.
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #20 on: May 15, 2019, 05:15:52 PM »

Oh well
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #21 on: June 03, 2019, 06:06:41 PM »

From the 1950s into the 1970s, the FCC field engineering offices that administered exams offered Amateur Extra licensees a 7 x 9 inch diploma-form licenses for wall framing upon request.  Mine is the most prominent document on my shack wall.  It does not have an expiration date, but states it is valid to the extent that the holder has a regular Amateur Extra license. 
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #22 on: June 03, 2019, 06:30:29 PM »

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....One of the reasons the FCC lowered or eliminated a lot of the fees a couple of years ago is it cost them more to collect them than the money they were getting from them....

Are massive bureaucracies great or what?
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RE: Suggestion to The FCC
« Reply #23 on: June 04, 2019, 05:50:25 AM »

I renewed my license online and ended up calling the FCC because I thought there was a mistake, when the system showed No Fee due. I was surprised to find out there are no longer any renewal fees.

There haven't been license fees for US amateur licenses for several decades now.

Vanity call fees and VEC test fees are a different story. But the basic license has been free for over 40 years.

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