From ???@0x00000B2D Wed Jan 09 10:53:49 2002 Path: pitt.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet!newsfeeds-atl2!newsfeeds-atl1.usenetserver.com!e420r-atl1.usenetserver.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: w4csc@hosed.com Newsgroups: rec.boats.cruising,rec.boats.electronics Subject: Re: FCC License Application Message-ID: <3c3c410e.3953552@isp-east.usenetserver.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 37 X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:24:48 EST Organization: WebUseNet Corp. - "ReInventing The UseNet" Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:31:03 GMT Xref: pitt.edu rec.boats.cruising:195893 rec.boats.electronics:36600 Status: N Steve, before you can get any FCC license, now, you must have a CORES (Commission Registration System) so you can get an FRN (FCC Registration Number). This is so they can first check you out and see if you owe the gummit bureaucrats any back taxes. Congress noticed lots of licensees didn't pay their taxes, so CORES, formerly called TIN (taxpayer identification number) was invented. (Of course, it also supports 8,237 bureaucrats and administrators looking for a gummit welfare retirement check.) Once you pass the "tax test" and get your FRN, you use the FRN to get your license from the ULS (Universal Licensing System), another 9,227 bureaucrats and administrators looking for a gummit welfare retirement check. Once allowed to logon to the ULS, getting your license is pretty much filling in the blanks on a webpage and clicking SUBMIT...webpage after webpage after webpage. CORES, FRN and ULS is all explained in bureaucratic detail on: http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/ Be sure to check the webpage, HOURLY, for any complete changes in the acronyms, complete new computer systems, changes in FCC bureaucracy causing this all to be thrown out and another completely new, amazingly complex, bureaucratic system being installed to thwart license issuance, and other hourly changes to enhance ULS security and complexity. Wanna have some fun? Try to get an FCC license for one of the new Community FM Stations, a little 100W, 100' FM broadcast station that bypasses the spam and plays real programming for no profits. The NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) has paid its lackeys at the FED to make sure NOONE can get this new license unless they have a $500K legal bill. It's obscene. NAB is terrified you'll listen to MUSIC on some community FM station, instead of listening to the continuous commercial advertising on THEIR stations. larry W4CSC.....a ULS-induced license!