Amateur Radio Exam Registration

6400 Johnson Pond Road, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526 First Saturday 9 AM

2813 Banks Road, Raleigh, NC 27603 Third Thursday 10:00 AM* 

805 S 3rd St Ste A Smithfield NC 27577, 2025** Third Saturday 9:30 AM

129 North Main Street, Wendell, NC 27591 Fourth Saturday  1:00 PM (Jan-Oct) 

2011 Ridge Road, Raleigh, NC 27607 Fourth Tuesday Even Months 6 PM

Rockingham, NC once a quarter details at k4RNC.org

If you have any questions or get stuck in the registration process of getting your amateur radio license  you may send me an Email.

Email is preferred but you may call me at (919)-614-6822 between 9 AM and 9 PM.

FCC Requirements

Fees

License exams administered by Laurel VEC examiners are free. However, once you pass a test that results in a new license being granted, you are required to pay a $35 fee to the U.S. Department of the Treasury before the license will be granted. Information on how to pay this fee will be given to successful applicants at the test session and will also be sent by email from the FCC to directly to the applicant. (Note that changes to an existing license, including upgrades and changes of address, do not result in a new license being granted, so no fee is charged.)

FRN

You must have a FCC Registration Number (FRN) before you can take any license examination. If you are already licensed, you already have a FRN; it’s on your copy of your license. If you do not have a FRN, you must apply for one on-line, directly from the FCC. This page explains how to obtain a FRN. While you may apply for a FRN at the test session, it is highly advisable to obtain it in advance of the session, as the FCC website is often down for maintenance during non-business hours and on weekends, which is when we administer most of our exams. 

Other Required Information

In addition to the FRN and your name, address, and call sign (if any), you must provide your email address and daytime phone number. All correspondence with the FCC, including issuing licenses and disseminating information on collection of fees, is done via email. Also, problems with processing your application can be expedited by contacting you by phone using the number you provide. The above links will open in a new window.  

Return and register for the exam at the location of your choice after you receive your FRN#

*registration required due to space limitations all other locations registration requested  https://fivecountyhre.org/study-tips-and-registration/

A list of no charge amateur radio exams are listed at https://www.laurelvec.com/

The exams we promote are administered by the Laurel VEC. They do not charge a fee for the exam.
For a listing of free exams in you area see The Laurel VEC website.

Ready Gov    suggest that you have alternate forms of communication available.  During an emergency is not the time to learn how to use your communication.

Amateur radio stations provide weather details to the National Weather Service thru the Skywarn program.

FCHRE Participates in JOTA 2021

Take a look at this video of our activities. It includes a look at deploying a dipole with a potato gun and a scout talking to Germany!

Join the Five County Ham Radio Enthusiasts on our Membership Registration page.

We hold a weekly net

Every Sunday night at 7:00 PM we hold our Five County Net on the Carolina 440 system.

The Five County net is held each Sunday at 7:00 PM.The topic of the net is checkin driven meaning If you have any topic of interest to the ham radio or other hobbies you may bring it up.Net control may restrict any topic and topics must be compliant with the repeater trustee and fcc regulations. We hope new and old amateur radio operators check in and volunteer for net control.

Carolina 440 consist of 14 Repeaters are on the Raleigh Carolina 440 UHF Link System full time covering over 45,000 square miles of mobile coverage. In addition to the RF Linked repeaters *Expandable coverage using IRLP, AllStar and EchoLink are available.

FCHRE Speakers Bureau

FCHRE is offering a speakers bureau.  Our members can offer a variety of topics in amateur radio from getting your amateur radio license to using your computer with your radio.  Email markgibson6822@gmail.com

Parks on the Air Activation

A couple of our members practiced their amateur radio skills by setting up their radio at a local campground see the story POTA Activation 2021 Raven Rock

 

In The News

East Wake Television featured Amateur Radio on a recent video. You may recognize a couple of our members.

Sky1 interviewed the FCVET at JARSFEST.