Speaker 1: During the government shutdown, the FCC was kind of working,
Speaker 1: kind of not was working on what they called essential items,
Speaker 1: whatever the heck that's defined as okay, But during that
Speaker 1: time they were not issuing renewals or new Ham radio licenses,
Speaker 1: but VEES, volunteer examiners and vec's Volunteer exam coordinator groups
Speaker 1: were still giving Ham radio tests and Ham radio upgrade
Speaker 1: tests and new license tests. And during that time forty
Speaker 1: three days of government shutdown, they took about twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred new applications for amateur radio licenses. So, guys, that
Speaker 1: tells me the amateur radio is just freaking dying. I
Speaker 1: did a video last week. Not sure the timing of
Speaker 1: the premieres of all these, but last week I recorded
Speaker 1: a video about how is HAM radio outdated? Is it dying?
Speaker 1: Is the numbers are dwindling? And you know, we proved
Speaker 1: that that part was wrong, okay, because since two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven or so, the numbers have been going up,
Speaker 1: either going up or staying steady. Watch that video. You
Speaker 1: can see more about that over there. But I found
Speaker 1: this article. Thanks Carlos for sending this to me. Carlos
Speaker 1: the Skydiving Monkey parachute Jesus as they call him. He
Speaker 1: sent me this article. He's like, dude, this is right
Speaker 1: up your ally. I'm like, yep, you're right about that.
Speaker 1: ABORLVC ready to file twenty five hundred plus twenty five
Speaker 1: hundred plus Ham Radio license applications. FCC extends renewal filing date.
Speaker 1: So if your FCC Ham Radio license or GMRS license
Speaker 1: or other personal radio license it talks about right here,
Speaker 1: amateur ship ship license, aircraft GMRS commercial operator's license, if
Speaker 1: that was up for renewal during this government shutdown, you've
Speaker 1: received an extension. You've received an extension. Renewal filings originally
Speaker 1: due on October first through and including March fifth of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six are now due on March fifth of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. So everything that was expired, everything that
Speaker 1: was coming up for renewal between the first of October
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and the fifth of March twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: almost six months, five months worth of renewals have all
Speaker 1: been pushed to March fifth, So you've got several months.
Speaker 1: You have a year and a half for the amateur
Speaker 1: radio license. You have a year and a half after
Speaker 1: your license. If you let it expire, you have a
Speaker 1: year and a half to renew it without taking a test. Again,
Speaker 1: you can't operate during that time, but you can just
Speaker 1: renew it and not take a test and go on
Speaker 1: about your day. But this is a story on the
Speaker 1: ABRL website. It is got a lot of information about
Speaker 1: the government shut down here and it says let's see
Speaker 1: on Thursday morning. So the first thing I noticed is
Speaker 1: the original article was on eleven eighteen, which at the
Speaker 1: time of this recording was about three days ago. They
Speaker 1: updated it yesterday, updated eleon twenty five. FCC system issues
Speaker 1: affecting application processing. So the website's not working big and
Speaker 1: a lot of you have commented saying I've tried to
Speaker 1: get the website to work. I tried to get my
Speaker 1: GMRS license. You just go in there and sign your
Speaker 1: name and put, you know, fill out the form and
Speaker 1: pay your thirty five bucks and you get a GMRS license.
Speaker 1: And I have heard reports of that failing recently as well.
Speaker 1: So on Thursday morning, an official alert was posted on
Speaker 1: the FCC website about the FCC systems experiencing significant performance
Speaker 1: degradation right here. I don't know if we're just bombarding
Speaker 1: it too much, or if their website just sucks. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. While some applications were successfully processed yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: it appears that currently the EBF system is no longer
Speaker 1: accepting applications. According to the website, there will be substantial
Speaker 1: delays in retrieving such search results, slower delay processing of
Speaker 1: new apps, modifications, renewals, assigned is transfers and other filings,
Speaker 1: intermittent timeouts during submission, general sluggishness, inability to complete application
Speaker 1: fee payments. Okay. FCC technical staff and contractors are actively
Speaker 1: investigating the cause in are working to restore normal system
Speaker 1: performance as quickly as possible. Issue is being treated with
Speaker 1: the highest priority, highest party. The FCC gives anyway. Commission
Speaker 1: will post additional notices when system performance has been restored.
Speaker 1: In La la la la during the shut Now this
Speaker 1: is the cool part right here. During the shutdown, the
Speaker 1: able r l VEC urged volunteer examiners to continue giving
Speaker 1: Ham radio exams. See important information from for abrl VEC
Speaker 1: exam candidates. Quote. We have over twenty five hundred license
Speaker 1: applications queued up, said Soma Soma's referring to manager Maria
Speaker 1: Soma AB one FM ablel VC Maria Soma, and she
Speaker 1: explained that the announcement means the amateurs whose license expired
Speaker 1: here or will expire between October first and March fifth,
Speaker 1: may continue to operate until completing a license renewal by
Speaker 1: March fifth. So you can continue to operate even if
Speaker 1: your license is expired in October. Just keep going because
Speaker 1: now your renewal date has been pushed back to March fifth. So,
Speaker 1: she says, we have over twenty five hundred licensed applications
Speaker 1: queued up. She noted that the A double orl VEC
Speaker 1: has already started to file the backlog of applications at
Speaker 1: least start quote again, at least for now when the
Speaker 1: FCC again resumes processing, they are limiting each use each
Speaker 1: EBF user like a double or l VEC to upload
Speaker 1: no more than seventy five applications per hour per hour.
Speaker 1: Seventy five applications per hour. When I first read that,
Speaker 1: I thought that said per day. It says seventy five
Speaker 1: applications per hour. To ensure the system is stable, she
Speaker 1: asks applicants to be patient during the FCC process backlog
Speaker 1: for a double l VC exam candidates who are unable
Speaker 1: to get an FCC FRN. If you have a GMRS
Speaker 1: license or a GOROLL license, or any type of any
Speaker 1: type of radio lessons at all, you have a FCC
Speaker 1: registration number what's called an FRN, and the FCC cords
Speaker 1: system was unavailable, Please follow these steps to ensure your
Speaker 1: license applications ready to be processed promptly once the EBF
Speaker 1: system comes back online. So that gives some steps here
Speaker 1: to And I've heard some of this as well. I've
Speaker 1: heard some people saying that, hey, I can't even get
Speaker 1: an f r A number, I can't log into the website,
Speaker 1: there's some kind of error, it's slow, it's sluggish, whatnot.
Speaker 1: And I've been hearing that for a while. Actually, I
Speaker 1: don't know if they took any of that down during
Speaker 1: the forty three day government shutdown. Regardless, we have we
Speaker 1: have over twenty five hundred applications and it doesn't really
Speaker 1: break down. Are they new applications and renewals? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It sounds like they're new applications to me. Now you
Speaker 1: say new applications, there might be people who have their
Speaker 1: tech or general license that went into a VC and
Speaker 1: took their extra test or took their general upgrade from
Speaker 1: technician test and got that upgrade, and that might be
Speaker 1: one of those twenty five hundred I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's twenty five hundred brand new people or not. This
Speaker 1: article does not break it down that specifically, and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: they probably don't have that information until they loaded into
Speaker 1: a computer somewhere and then have the numbers read back
Speaker 1: to them. So I don't know. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're doing it. And you know, if they're using exam tools,
Speaker 1: then it's probably calculating it pretty accurately. If they're using
Speaker 1: paper logs, which is still a thing, then who knows
Speaker 1: how many it is. But either way, either way, if
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Speaker 1: radio license like these other twenty five hundred people right here.
Speaker 1: But if you have if you are having problem getting
Speaker 1: your frin, here is what you do and I will
Speaker 1: put a link to this article in the description blow
Speaker 1: so you guys can go check that out. Register for
Speaker 1: your CORESE account at this url right here. Apps dot
Speaker 1: FCC dot gov, slash CORSE, slash log in userlog in
Speaker 1: dot do using your email address and your username, verify
Speaker 1: your account and log in to obtain your FCCFRN. Be
Speaker 1: sure to register as an individual entered your personal information
Speaker 1: exactly as it appears on your photo ID. When you
Speaker 1: receive your FRN, save it carefully. This is your permanent
Speaker 1: FCC identifier. Send your name, test date, and new FRN
Speaker 1: to ablel VC email VEC at a doblel dot org
Speaker 1: and there we go. There's other vcs out there. Glarg
Speaker 1: Alaska has a VC, WIYI has a VC. A DOUBLEL
Speaker 1: is one of many VCS Volunteer Exam Coordinator group that
Speaker 1: is out there. They do a fantastic job. And if
Speaker 1: you go through another VC, that's totally fine as well.
Speaker 1: Just go study and go get your hand radio license. So,
Speaker 1: but twenty five hundred applications waiting, twenty five hundred in
Speaker 1: forty three days. In the last forty three days the
Speaker 1: government was shut down for forty three days. They reopened
Speaker 1: the government about about a week ago at the time
Speaker 1: of this recording, around November thirteen, okay, but prior to
Speaker 1: that it was forty three day and apparently a week
Speaker 1: ago they still can't get the website to work. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, twenty five hundred plus backlog
Speaker 1: applications for amateur radio licensed guys. Amateur radio is not dying.
Speaker 1: It's getting more popular, it's getting better, it's evolving, but
Speaker 1: it is not dying. I'd like to know have you
Speaker 1: experienced problems with the FCC website? Have you tried even GMRS?
Speaker 1: Have you tried to get a GMRS license? Have you
Speaker 1: tried to get an FRN. Have you tried to get
Speaker 1: your HAM radio license upgrade? Or have you taken a
Speaker 1: new exam and you're still waiting on your call sign.
Speaker 1: You're still waiting on your upgrade because everything's been so
Speaker 1: slow right now during this government shutdown. Put a comment
Speaker 1: in the description below let me know what your specific
Speaker 1: situation is. I would love to hear from you. Seventy three.
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