Before receiving a license grant, you must pass an examination administered by a team of volunteer examiners VEs. The VEs determine the license operator class for which you are qualified through the testing of your skills and abilities in operating an amateur station.
You can contact a VE team in your community to make arrangements for being administered the examination elements you desire. After you successfully complete the exam, the VEC collects your infromation from your VE team and, after carefully screening it, forwards the information thereon to the FCC for processing.
Your operating authority begins when your license grant information appears on the amateur service licensee database of the Universal Licensing System. Common filing tasks include:. About Rule Part 47 C.
Re: Joseph W. Call signs having the single letter prefix K, N or W , a single digit numeral 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and a single letter suffix are reserved for the special event call sign system. For Extra class licensees seeking the rare 1x2 or 2x1 Extra class type call signs, some online databases exist that attempt to list the potentially vacant calls.
These web sites are of great service to Extra class hams. For Advanced, General, Technician or Novice class amateurs, the number of possible choices in the tens of thousands is so great that it has been impractical for a database to attempt to provide all of the possibly vacant call signs available to these amateurs.
Write down the types of suffixes, the call area number s and the prefix types you may desire; 2. Assemble some call signs using your desired components and then check online databases to determine if your choices have already been assigned; 3.
For those choices that are not apparently assigned FCC accepts up to 25 call sign choices , arrange them in your desired order from most desired 1 to your last choice Exceptions to the Two Year Waiting Period. View the filing information and instructions on the Club Call Signs page. View the filing information and instructions on the applying for a vanity call sign page. Secure Site Login Forgot Password? Follow the Obtaining a Vanity Call Sign instructions.
Note that your application will be posted to the ULS at the end of the first Federal workday after you filed officially, the receipt date. Note that applicants occasionally file one application without paying, and then file a second application with payment. If you do this without then deleting or withdrawing the first application, both applications will be dismissed: the first one for non-payment, and the second one as a duplicate!
Note that you can pay online by credit card either at the time of filing, or later. If you filed online, you may want to delay paying for a couple Federal workdays days to verify that your application has been entered correctly see the following step , and if you are applying for a popular callsign, in order to view any competition for your chosen callsigns.
The FCC license not application fee is:. Wait until a Federal workday has passed, and then use the FCC's to check on the status of your application: Search for your present callsign; any pending applications from you are shown there.
Also notice the quick links in the menu bar at the top of this page, which will take you to some of the more interesting items that might otherwise have been easily overlooked. Question: Which of the following describes a simple dipole oriented parallel to the Earth's surface?
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