{"id":5161,"date":"2016-03-05T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2016-08-20T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T16:59:53","slug":"fcc-seeks-comments-on-petition-to-grant-lifetime-amateur-radio-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/fcc-seeks-comments-on-petition-to-grant-lifetime-amateur-radio-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Seeks Comments on Petition to Grant Lifetime Amateur Radio Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the ARRL Website:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date\">02\/24\/2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The FCC is seeking comments on a <i>Petition for Rule Making<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/document\/view?id=60001333714\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>RM 11760<\/strong><\/a>) that asks the FCC to grant lifetime Amateur Radio licenses. Mark F. Krotz, N7MK, of Mesa, Arizona, filed his request with the FCC last November. He wants the FCC to revise \u00a7 97.25 of its rules to indicate that Amateur Radio licenses are granted for the holder\u2019s lifetime, instead of for the current 10 year term. Krotz noted that the General Radiotelephone Operator License (GROL) already is issued on a lifetime basis, and he maintained that not having to renew licenses would lighten the FCC\u2019s workload.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be mutually beneficial for the FCC and Amateur Radio operators to update Part 97 to grant operator licenses for lifetime, Krotz said in his filing. \u201cThe FCC would benefit by reducing administrative costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 the FCC granted lifetime credit for examination elements 3 and 4, but applicants seeking relicensing under that provision still must pass examination element 2.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals may <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.fcc.gov\/ecfs\/proceeding\/view?name=RM-11760\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>submit<\/strong><\/a> comments via the FCC\u2019s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>UPDATE posted 8\/20\/16: The FCC announced that the Petition\u00a0 for Rule Making (RM 11760) has been\u00a0dismissed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the ARRL Website: 02\/24\/2016 The FCC is seeking comments on a Petition for Rule Making (RM 11760) that asks the FCC to grant lifetime Amateur Radio licenses. Mark F. Krotz, N7MK, of Mesa, Arizona, filed his request with the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/fcc-seeks-comments-on-petition-to-grant-lifetime-amateur-radio-licenses\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}