This site tracks amateur radio licensees in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, straight from the FCC's Universal Licensing System. Nothing here is hand-typed: the numbers below come from the ULS database and refresh daily.

There are currently 1,524 active licensees and 13 club stations in the county.

81 licenses in the county expire within the next six months. The FCC does not send reminders. You get a two year grace period to renew after expiry, but you may not transmit during it, and once it passes the call sign goes back in the pool.

There is no Morse code requirement and has not been since 2007. The entry level Technician exam is 35 questions drawn from a published pool of about 400, and a passing score is 26. The whole pool is public, which means you can study the exact questions you will be asked.

• Study the Technician pool question group by question group
• Find an exam session near Bucks County
• FCC Amateur Radio Service

Several VE teams run remote video-supervised sessions daily, so you can usually test within an hour of deciding you are ready, rather than waiting for the next monthly in-person session. WM7X runs sessions 8am to 10pm Eastern, seven days a week. The session fee is the usual $15, plus the FCC's $35 application fee after you pass.

See WM7X's upcoming sessions and book one

Penn Wireless runs VE sessions the first Wednesday of each month at the Levittown Library. They are the closest team to us and explicitly welcome new hams, so if you would rather sit in a room with people than stare into a webcam, that is the one.

35 questions, 26 to pass. Bring your FRN if you already have one from a GMRS license: it is the same number and there is no need to register again. If you do not have one, register at FCC CORES before your session.

After you pass, the VE team files electronically and the FCC emails you a payment link. Pay the $35 within 10 days or the application is dismissed and you sit the exam again. The call sign normally appears in the FCC database a day or two later, at which point you will find yourself in the New Licensees table above.

No nets logged yet. Once we start running, every check-in goes here: call sign, town and signal report. On simplex that record is worth keeping, because it shows what actually gets out around the county rather than what a coverage map claims.

No members listed yet. Join and your call sign appears here with your name, class and town read straight from the FCC database. Nothing to fill in beyond the call sign itself.

A small, informal club in upper Bucks County built around the Tuesday net. There is no clubhouse, no dues and no application form. If you check in, you are one of us.

• HamSandwich.org - call sign search
• Study for your license
• Vanity call signs
• ARRL