On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Alun Palmer wrote:
JJ wrote in :
Dan/W4NTI wrote:
I don't think that is correct 'jj'. I believe there is a charge if
your not a member.

License renewal is FREE, any amateur can renew FREE directly with
the FCC, you don't need to go through the ARRL, W5YI, or anyone
else. Why pay someone else (either directly or through ARRL dues)
for something that is very simple and one can do themselves for FREE?

Because if you are on dial-up it is very difficult to use the free service

BS. I use dial-up and it took me 2 minutes about 2 months ago.

Now, if one were to try to renew via a chain of 300 baud HF TCP/IP packet radio
links, then timeouts would become an issue. :-)