[LARC-CQ] CQ Digest, Vol 34, Issue 20
usl607
usl607 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 13:48:30 PST 2020
Morse code instruction/and practice.
I am a member of the Rochester Amateur Radio Association in Rochester, NY.
On thursday nights they have just started classes for people that want to
learn the code. On wednesday nights they have 40 minutes of practice to
help improve your speed.
If anyone is interested in joining with the group let me know and we can
see what we can do. The moderator instructors are great guys and I am sure
you would find it fun.
Gary, K2OU
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> 1. New FCC Licensing charges (John Leahy)
> 2. LARC Blog Update: FCC announces $35 application fee for
> Amateur Radio Licenses (Jimmy Russ)
> 3. LARC Blog Update: Ham Radio Resolutions for 2021 (Jimmy Russ)
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> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:26:34 +0000 (UTC)
> From: John Leahy <jleahy00 at yahoo.com>
> To: ZAARC <zaarc at groups.io>, "k4ex at groups.io" <k4ex at groups.io>, LARC
> Discussion List <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org>
> Subject: [LARC-CQ] New FCC Licensing charges
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> b. Personal Licenses??
> Amateur Radio Fee to be $35.? Passed by FCC on 12/23/20 and released to
> public on 12/29/2020.? The full 97 page text is available on the ZAARC
> website.? This becomes effective by law on or about Jan. 29, 2021 except
> that the vehicles to collect the funds are not clear and they have to be
> sorted out.? How this will affect the VE Sessions and the timely issuance
> of Call Signs is unclear at this time but it does give the FCC at least
> $2,625,000 and we do ALL of their work.?
> I will post all 97 pages on the ZAARC website in the VE section soon.
> John, KK4ITX
> 30. We adopt the categories of personal license application fees proposed
> in the NPRM. TheCommission proposed a fee of $50 for each of these
> applications. The Sonoma County Radio Amateurs,Amateur Radio Relay League
> (ARRL), and many individual commenters contend that the proposed $50fee for
> Amateur Radio Service applications is too high and will prevent amateurs
> from joining theamateur radio service; instead, they contend, the
> Commission should adopt no fee or a nominal fee.58 We agree with commenters
> asserting this fee is too high to account for the minimal staff involvement
> in theseapplications and therefore adopt a reduced amount of $35 fee for
> all personal license application fees.59
> 31. In 2019, the Commission received over 197,000 personal license
> applications. Severalservices in the personal licenses category will be
> subject to new fees, such as Amateur Radio Servicelicenses, which were not
> listed on the fee schedule in the prior version of section 8 of the Act,
> but are nowsubject to fees under the RAY BAUM?S Act. In the NPRM, we sought
> comment on adopting cost-based fees for personal license applications.
> 32. Personal licenses include Amateur Radio Service licenses (used for
> recreational,noncommercial radio services), Ship licenses (used to operate
> all manner of ships), Aircraft licenses (usedto operate all manner of
> aircraft), Commercial Radio Operator licenses (permits for ship and
> aircraftstation operators, where required), and General Mobile Radio
> Service (GMRS) licenses (used for shortdistance, two-way voice
> communications using hand-held radios, as well as for short data
> messagingapplications).60 With personal licenses, an applicant?s initial
> application for authorization seeks shareduse of certain spectrum bands, or
> a permit required for operation of certain radio equipment. In eithercase,
> these applications focus only on eligibility and do not require technical
> review. As such, there is noconstruction requirement (or related filings)
> and renewal filings are non-technical as well. For thesereasons,
> applications in these services are highly automated and should be subject
> to the
> same assessmentof fees.
> 33. Numerous commenters suggest that amateur radio licenses should be
> exempted or areexempt under section 8(d)(1) of the Act. We disagree and
> note as a starting point that the Commissionhas no authority to create an
> exemption where none presently exists. Thus, if an exemption exists, it
> mustbe contained within the wording of section 8(d)(1) of the Act.61 None
> of the listed exemptions apply toexempt Amateur Radio Service licenses.
> 34. AGC argues that amateur radio licenses should be exempt under section
> 8(d)(1)(B) asthey are ?operating for all intents and purposes as non-profit
> entities? because they provide public safetyand special emergency radio
> services in times of crisis on a volunteer basis.62 While we are very
> muchaware of these laudable and important services amateur radio licensees
> provide to the American public,we do not agree that amateur radio licenses
> fit within the section 8(d)(1)(B) exemption Congressprovided.63 These
> specific exemptions do not apply to the amateur radio personal licenses.
> Emergencycommunications, for example, are voluntary and are not required by
> our rules.64 Further, there is noindication that most or all amateurs
> solely use their license for emergency communications; even thesection of
> our rules allowing certain amateur operators to broadcast civil defense
> communications limitsuch authorization to periods of local, regional or
> national civil emergencies.65 As we have notedpre
> viously, ?[w]hile the value of the amateur service to the public as a
> voluntary noncommercialcommunications service, particularly with respect to
> providing emergency communications, is one of theunderlying principles of
> the amateur service, the amateur service is not an emergency radio
> service.?66
> 35. We also disagree with commenters67 that argue that amateur radio
> operators are amongthe ?noncommercial? entities that fall under section
> 8(d)(1)(C)?s exemption68 for ?a noncommercial radiostation or a
> noncommercial television station.?69 Although, under Commission rules,
> amateur radio is a?voluntary noncommercial service,?70 we do not believe
> Congress intended to cover amateur radiooperators under the newly added
> exemption. That rule was based on the Commission?s determination
> thatCongress intended to exempt noncommercial educational (NCE) broadcast
> stations from the applicationfees.71 Given that the Commission?s
> longstanding exemption rule of over 30 years covered onlynoncommercial
> educational broadcast stations, Congress presumably would have more clearly
> indicatedan expanded exemption if it had intended one to cover amateur
> radio service. We see no such indicationhere. To the contrary, we believe
> Congress?s inclusion of the term ?noncommercial television
> station?immediately fo
> llowing ?noncommercial radio station? cabins the contextual meaning of
> that term.72 Wedid not then 30 years ago, nor do we now, conclude that the
> exemption covers non-broadcast services.?
> 36. Lastly, while fees for amateur radio licenses were not previously
> listed on the feeschedule in section 8 of the Act, the RAY BAUM?S Act
> directed the Commission to establish fees for allapplications and there is
> no specific exemption for this radio service under section 8 of the Act
> asamended. If Congress had intended to exempt amateur radio licensees from
> payment of application fees,it would have identified this service as
> exempt, as it did in section 9 of the Act, exempting ?an amateurradio
> operator licensee under part 97 of the Commission?s rules? from payment of
> regulatory fees.73
> While the RAY BAUM?S Act amended section 9 and retained the regulatory fee
> exemption for amateurradio station licensees, Congress did not include a
> comparable exemption among the amendments it made
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> https://blog.lakelandarc.org/2020/12/ham-radio-resolutions-for-2021/
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> My ham radio resolution for 2021 is to get my code speed up so I can get a
> beautiful Vibroplex bug with which I was gifted on the air, and to get the
> 20 w.p.m. endorsement sticker for my Certificate of Code Proficiency.
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> What's yours?
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