Revised Procedures for Filing an Amateur Service License Application

This Order amends the amateur service rules to provide an electronic filing capability to the volunteer-examiner coordinators (VECs), to clarify that amateur station and operator licensees are authorized as soon as the license data is entered into the Commission's licensee data base, and to reflect other non-substantive procedural changes. This action is necessary because recent modernization of the Commission's data processing capabilities makes it possible to greatly reduce the time it takes for us to grant licenses in the amateur service, and all of the VECs have notified us that they want to begin electronic filing of license application data as soon as possible. The intended effect of this action is to allow successful license examinees to operate their amateur stations as soon as possible. The text of the final rules is at the end of this document.