<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">FCC Chair comments on amateur radio remote testing</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Ajit Pai</strong> Chair of the FCC (USA&#39;s communications regulator) has publicly thanked radio amateur <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Sam Hulick KD9PGO</strong> for highlighting the issue of remote testing<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Ajit Pai tweeted:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Good news for aspiring amateur radio operators: the @FCC has clarified that its rules allow remote testing and that remote testing doesn&#39;t require prior FCC approval. Thanks to @SamHulick [KD9PGO] for bringing this to my attention; hope this helps hams out there! <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-467A1.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-20-467A1.pdf</a></em><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1256213902569943042" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1256213902569943042</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (VEC&#39;s) in the USA started conducting online remotely-invigilated exams in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. It appears a number of amateurs have been bombarding the FCC with queries about the validity of such exams. This forced the FCC to put out the statement on April 30 in the PDF cited by Ajit Pai.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The FCC changed the regulations to permit Remote Exams way back in 2014 but it seems many radio amateurs were unaware of this, see<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-14-74A1.pdf" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-14-74A1.pdf</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>