What's the deal w/ FCC's website?

[jeepsandradios]

Its not only the old folks, I know many kids who have never touched a computer other that a phone or a tablet.

 

[ladn]

It must be the coal fired plant that feeds high pressure steam to their 1932 era routers and servers. Someone might have let the boilers go cold and lighting them off again takes time.

 

[ai8o]

That and coupled with the rumor that the FCC databases, along with IRS, SS, & and other agencies are on shared mainframes. And with tax return processing this time of the year, it may be more sluggish than normal. Also they had problems finding COBOL programmers in prep. of Y2K so the problem is not going to get better in the foreseeable future. Thank God for the invention of tubes and transistors so no more relays.

What gives you the Idea "

no more relays.

Maybe the relays will go away when they get their new IBM 360-70 going.

Then maybe they will think about replacing their 2 inch tape drives.

 

[merlin]

Its GUBRMENT,,nuf said.

 

[devolic]

To be fair (well, not really…) a lot of IT organizations act like this.

"Here is our service, don't like it? Tough. Go get it somewhere else. Oh, we are the only option? well, I guess you have to deal with it."

I had a mortgage company a few years back based out of the East coast. Their IT guys had a notice on their website that said something to the effect of "our website will be down for maintenance each day from 10pm to 2am Eastern time"
Do the math. That's prime bill paying time on the West coast. I'd always have problems trying to get on their website at the right time so I could pay. Complaints to their 800 number were essentially ignored.

To be fair! This is all i have received for 3 WEEkS! Nothing in the mail good luck with that number & i have paid! How else do u wish to kiss their ass!

 

[W8KIC]

To be fair! This is all i have received for 3 WEEkS! Nothing in the mail good luck with that number & i have paid! How else do u wish to kiss their ass!

Im sure you've already posted your call sign on this thread and I'm just plain blind to it. FWIW, tell us what your current call sign happens to be. TIA

 

[littona]

I'm sure they'll move it to AWS in due time... in a bucket without a password.

 

[wa88it]

View attachment 141060

alas, not to advertise my age per se., this gentleman worked two side by side 60K tube computers, aka SAGE
"The AN/FSQ-7 computer was made up of 32 000 different pieces, 60 000 vacuum tubes, 3 000 miles of wire . Each computer had 600 000 resistors, 170 000 diodes and weighed about 275 tons. It was so large that 'two' occupied the space of a four story-building."
cite: The SAGE Computer · Cold War Radar Technology and Equipment · Cold War Radar

thanks for the flash back to the better days in computer science...

sage's memory section

 

[ermin]

it is now 6-16-2023. i have been trying to access the FCC web site for 8 days now but get the same error message every time "The FCC system you are attempting to access is currently down" anyone able to login to the amateur section yet?
regards
Ermin

 

[trentbob]

So I haven't had any business with the FCC recently but I do use an icon on my desktop of my phone to look up call letters.

The last few times I tried to search a call letter I got this screen.


Rather than using the icon I tried other methods like sitemap, and other roundabout ways to get to the same lookup page and actually got the lookup page giving me the option of entering a call letter or a name, when I put the call letter in after about 10 seconds I got the above screen again.

Of course there are other alternates to look up the same thing but I have not been able to access that ability on the FCC site for a while now.

 

[iMONITOR]

I gave up trying for now. When they're ready to provide the service we're all paying for I'll try again.

 

[ramal121]

Maybe this???

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/politics/us-government-hit-cybeattack/index.html

Gall dang ruzzians!

 

[mmckenna]

FCC sent out this notice on the 14th:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-506A1.pdf

 

[n0xvz]

I renewed my license last week without issue.

 

[KD7RJC]

Even before the FCC's official notice that there was a problem, I found it incredibly inconvenient to both renew my amateur license and to apply for a GMRS license. My timing landed where I had to pay for each at application. First problem, I had to be logged-in by e-mail in order to do one part, but I had to be logged-in by FRN in another part. Then the system had to forward me to the federal government payment system, which had its own annoyances.

The issue with e-mail vs FRN was that I had needed to log in by FRN to find info, but when the part that required initially logging-in by e-mail then forwarded me to the FRN part, the prior login cookie was not acceptable and the system reacted poorly.

I don't understand why I cannot just log in one time in order to work with my own records and to renew, especially since my FRN and e-mail are associated with each other anyway.

 

[Lauri-CoyoteFrostbite]

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The explanation is quite simple, Comrade.

When East Germany collapsed, many of the automotive engineers from the People's Republic got jobs in the west.
You must have heard of the Peoples car, No?

("Turbosquid")

The Trabant .................

These engineers gravitated into the US government where years later they continue to work in IT for such agencies as the FCC.




Do you have a problem with this, Comrade ?

Lauri


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[trentbob]

So while trying to get into the database today I not only got the system maintenance message seen in post #30 but there is an additional message now.

 

[ladn]

...but there is an additional message now.

Maybe they're inviting us over for Friday drinks and a nosh?

 

[wtp]

i liked the geographic lookup and that seems to be OK now...

License Search - Geographic Search

 

[wtp]

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