Posted: 5/11/2010 5:34:41 PM EDT
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I wrote a local VEC about signing up for an exam.
He indicated that to take technician and general would be $15 for each element. What is the fee, and how shall it be paid? It's $15 per exam element...cash or check/money order payable to ARRL/VEC. We'll take care of that and all the exam paperwork on June 5. For directions to the test site, go to: I was led to believe (ARRL site, and others) that it was $15 for test day and if you passed one element, you were allowed to keep trying the higher levels until you flunked. 
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If you pass the Tech, there is no additional charge to take the General.
If you pass the General, there is no additional charge to take the Extra. If you take an element and do not pass, but feel that if you do it over, you can, you will have to pay the fee again. |
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Each VEC Group sets its own fees.
Some groups charge a fee, some do not. Some fees cover all testing, including retest of elements at the same session, some do not. Some fees cover one try only of each element at the same test session. Here are a few of the VECS: Laurel Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Name: Jim Nowotarski Call Sign: N3GOO P.O. Box 146 Laurel, MD 20725-0146 Phone: (410) 765-8183 Email: [email protected] W4VEC - VEC Name: Billy Stewart POB 41 Lexington, NC 27293-0041 Email: [email protected] W5YI-VEC Larry Pollock- NB5X 2000 E. Randol Mill Road, Suite 608-A Arlington, TX 76011 Phone: 1-800-669-9594 Fax: (817) 548-9594 Email: [email protected] WCARS / VEC, Inc. Win Guin - W2GLJ 2138 Sonning Dr Germantown, TN 38138 Phone: (901) 754-4552 Fax: 901-757-3874 Email: [email protected] ARRL The American Radio Relay League, Inc. - W1AW 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111-1494 Phone: (860) 594-0300 Fax: (860) 594-0339 Email: [email protected] Here is the full list as a link: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=licensing_5&id=amateur#VECs Do not assume that because one has a policy that the others follow the same policy. You will be wrong if you make that assumption. 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings |
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Quoted: If you pass the Tech, there is no additional charge to take the General. If you pass the General, there is no additional charge to take the Extra. If you take an element and do not pass, but feel that if you do it over, you can, you will have to pay the fee again. This |
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For the ARRL all the information is quite public: http://issuu.com/ARRL/docs/ve_manual_web - See page 42 for the fees information.
You can also get a PDF version from the ARRL Website. 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings |
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Each VEC Group sets its own fees. Some groups charge a fee, some do not. Some fees cover all testing, including retest of elements at the same session, some do not. Some fees cover one try only of each element at the same test session. Here are a few of the VECS: Laurel Amateur Radio Club, Inc. Name: Jim Nowotarski Call Sign: N3GOO P.O. Box 146 Laurel, MD 20725-0146 Phone: (410) 765-8183 Email: [email protected] W4VEC - VEC Name: Billy Stewart POB 41 Lexington, NC 27293-0041 Email: [email protected] W5YI-VEC Larry Pollock- NB5X 2000 E. Randol Mill Road, Suite 608-A Arlington, TX 76011 Phone: 1-800-669-9594 Fax: (817) 548-9594 Email: [email protected] WCARS / VEC, Inc. Win Guin - W2GLJ 2138 Sonning Dr Germantown, TN 38138 Phone: (901) 754-4552 Fax: 901-757-3874 Email: [email protected] ARRL The American Radio Relay League, Inc. - W1AW 225 Main Street Newington, CT 06111-1494 Phone: (860) 594-0300 Fax: (860) 594-0339 Email: [email protected] Here is the full list as a link: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=licensing_5&id=amateur#VECs Do not assume that because one has a policy that the others follow the same policy. You will be wrong if you make that assumption. 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings the test done via the Laurel Amateur Radio Club are free. thats where i got my tech from. got my general last friday from my local club and it was $15. will try for extra next month and that will be free. |
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For the ARRL all the information is quite public: http://issuu.com/ARRL/docs/ve_manual_web - See page 42 for the fees information. You can also get a PDF version from the ARRL Website. 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings Page 42 seems to indicate that they guy should NOT be charging $15 (or the prescribed yearly fee) for each exam element (unless it is a RETRY). |
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For the ARRL all the information is quite public: http://issuu.com/ARRL/docs/ve_manual_web - See page 42 for the fees information. You can also get a PDF version from the ARRL Website. 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings Page 42 seems to indicate that they guy should NOT be charging $15 (or the prescribed yearly fee) for each exam element (unless it is a RETRY). how are you getting that from that page? that just means that for XXXXyear the fee is $XX.XX. so this year it might be $15 and next year it could be $10 or $20. |
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For the ARRL all the information is quite public: http://issuu.com/ARRL/docs/ve_manual_web - See page 42 for the fees information. You can also get a PDF version from the ARRL Website. 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings Page 42 seems to indicate that they guy should NOT be charging $15 (or the prescribed yearly fee) for each exam element (unless it is a RETRY). how are you getting that from that page? that just means that for XXXXyear the fee is $XX.XX. so this year it might be $15 and next year it could be $10 or $20. The ARRL Sets and Announces their fee each year. Page 42 of the VE Manual explains what that fee covers (at try at each of the elements at the same test session, but not repeats which require another fee). 73 Steve K9ZW BLOG: With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings |
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I would point out, the FCC does not charge, the VEC's do. They are doing all the paperwork, submitting the information to the FCC, etc. The FCC does not get a penny of the fee money. That all goes to the VEC and the VE's for expenses. That fee money rarely pays gas money for the VE's, really.
If you can't afford the test fee, you probably can't afford a radio, either. |
