Responding to an FCC Pubic Notice in January seeking
comment on the possible expansion of the volunteer examining program to add new
Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (VECs), the ARRL said the program is working
just fine with the 14 VECs currently administering amateur license exams and
that adding more would make more work for the FCC staff and "raise the
potential for abuse and fraud."
According to the ARRL Letter, the League's comments noted that exam opportunities continued to be plentiful even during the Covid-19 pandemic, and suggested that "(i)nstead of increasing the number of VECs, we would encourage volunteers to become accredited as VEs (volunteer examiners) and to … help the current VECs wherever possible." ARRL-VEC is the largest of the 14 current VEC organizations.
