Amateur License Filing Fees Likely Not Implemented Until 2022
By: Kent Petty, KL5T, Chairman, Anchorage ARC VEC July 16, 2021 During a conference call with the FCC and the 14 VECs yesterday (July 15, 2021), the FCC provided a...
Category: VEC
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FCC Sets Date to Mandate FRNs for New Licensees
The FCC has set May 20, 2021, as the end date for amateur radio license applicants to take advantage of the “FCC Registration Number (FRN) auto-registration”. What does this mean? ...
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Anchorage ARC VEC Accepting Remote VE Applications
By: Kent Petty, KL5T, Chairman, Anchorage ARC VEC The Anchorage ARC VEC is accepting a limited number of applications for Volunteer Examineers (VEs) to assist with our Remote Volunteer Examination...
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Should You Become a Volunteer Examiner?
By: Kent Petty, KL5T Chairman, Anchorage ARC VEC Remember when you took your license examination to get your very first amateur radio license? Remember those “volunteer examiners” (at least...
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New Licensee Shares His Story and Fascination with Radio
By: Kent Petty, KL5T ————————– We received the following from Darius Thompson of Rancho Santa Fe, California following his successful Technician Class examination the Anchorage ARC VEC administered remotely earlier...
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Anchorage ARC VEC Granted CSCSA Status
By: Kent Petty, KL5T September 12, 2020 The Anchorage Amateur Radio Club Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (Anchorage ARC VEC) was granted Club Station Call Sign Administrator (CSCSA) status today by the...
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Updated Application Needed
By Kent Petty, KL5T To all club members…..or anyone else who might be willing to help!…. The Anchorage ARC VEC is in need of an updated program to help us...
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California Mother and Son Have Kind Words for Anchorage ARC VEC
By Kent Petty (KL5T) I thought it might be nice to share some wonderful comments from one of our new hams, Lynn Lewis, KN6JVC. She and her son Grant used...
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New VE Team Holds First Test Session in Colorado Springs
By Tom Obenchain (K0RZR) On Saturday, June 27, 2020 the Anchorage ARC (AARC) VEC’s first in-person testing session was held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This session marked the first time...
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Anchorage ARC VEC Restarts On-site Testing at RSOC
The Anchorage ARC VEC is very carefully restarting its amateur radio license examinations at the Radio Science and Operations Center (RSOC) in Anchorage on the second Saturday at 2:00 PM...