Foundies waiting impatiently for their standard call

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:23 pm

Nafenn wrote:
slipknot wrote:meh, oh well
Thanks Rob
be glad you have an F-call... still waiting on mine to go through

hehehe, ahh , the waitin is the hard part.
I actuly checked up with the WIA on our exams and unfortuenatly, the examiner only just came back from leave this week

but thier on to it now and apparently now, the wia now does all the work for acma so as soon as the wia are finished processing the exam its gets sent strait to acma and as soon as the exam is sent to acma it gets processed immediatly and hence its up before you know it. all the documents that get sent to where ever is all sent by express post which is good to know. She rekons that it will be a wait of two more weeks Maximum.

They told me some interesting stuff aswell.

it takes about an hour to process one whole exam pack.
they get about 20 packs done every day
and about 50 exams were piled up when the examiner came back on monday

Post by **VK6ZMS** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:32 pm

Gee 20 packs a day @ 1 hour each, that means the examiner doing the packs only gets 4 hours sleep

Post by **Zebedee** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:33 pm

No wonder he needed a holiday!

Post by **meg** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:57 pm

VK6ZMS wrote:Gee 20 packs a day @ 1 hour each, that means the examiner doing the packs only gets 4 hours sleep

He might do them in his sleep

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:13 pm

lmao didnt realise, well, im not sure about what happened but i dunno, mayby they rushed......

Post by **meg** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:59 pm

An update on waiting times - the WIA are hoping they might be finished doing them by the end of this week.

*holds breath*

Post by **Tyranus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:58 pm

jeesh have none of you hear of patience? there's even a game named after it!

Post by **Zebedee** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:23 pm

Tyranus wrote:jeesh have none of you hear of patience? there's even a game named after it!

Ooooohhhhhh - you're brave, saying that

I can hear the angry mob lighting their torches and sharpening their pitchforks .......

Post by **meg** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:25 pm

no, we'll just remind him of this when he's wailing and gnashing his teeth waiting for his new license to come through

Post by **robbage** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:30 pm

meg wrote:An update on waiting times - the WIA are hoping they might be finished doing them by the end of this week.

*holds breath*

There's $20.60 worth of service for you

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:54 pm

Ahem Weve been wating since 7th of july so by tomorrow being the 28th of july, that will be 3 weeks now... I think i speek for all of us when i say i think the wia need more staff

Thank for the update meg, muchly appreciataed, ive already called them twice and I was a bit scared to call them again....

Post by **Zebedee** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:55 pm

Well it does seem like a long time, but around four or so weeks seems to be the average, more or less.

slipknot · Post by **slipknot** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:28 am

I had the courage yesterday to ring up the wia again and demanded to know what the staus was of my licence, and they asked me what my name was, and i said James, and they said, "ive got it open in front of me now". lol and that was in the morning so that should mean they should be done by tuesday.

Post by **VK6ZMS** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:38 am

or he slid it into the bin

I had to wait over 6 weeks due to Christmas and new year break for my advanced callsign.

Post by **robbage** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:54 am

Split from "Echolink link"

We can rename this thread "Standards waiting impatiently for their advanced call" in 6 months

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