What is going on with the FCC ULS and CORES?

[73blazer]

ULS has been timing out, locking up, and the picks that do make it seem to take 1m or so to come up. Been like this for days. I thought mabey it was just my machine or my browser, nope, I tried from my phone not on wifi, same thing, tried from a work computer, same thing. Tried multiple browsers.

I'm just trying to check on my new HAM license that's supposed to show up there any day. I have zero confidence it actually will. CORES was super slow as well but at least worked. It took my monies anyway. Anyone actually get a GMRS recently in there?

Most of the time ULS ends in this after  a minute or so:

[gortex2]

ITs been like this for a week now. I have multiple changes to process. Guessing the squirrels took a nap. 

 

[GP62]

I got my GMRS on Feb 29.....It took 2 days......I'm guessing there is a recent avalanche of HAM and GMRS applications that the 1970's vintage government systems cannot handle.....

[WRYZ926]

The FCC website timing out is nothing new. It did that when I applied for my FRN, GMRS license, and amateur license last fall. The FCC site is like radio propagation, sometimes its great and other times its not. 

[73blazer]

It wasn't like that two years ago when I renewed my GMRS license. Which was the last time I was on it.

[helfrich]

I've been unable to login to CORES. Have others had luck this past week?

[SteveShannon]

37 minutes ago, helfrich said:

I've been unable to login to CORES. Have others had luck this past week?

I just logged in without any issues. 

[73blazer]

I was able to log to both. It's always in and out. You can login on minute and the next page times out , refresh and it comes up. Click something else and it times out.

[tcp2525]

Works fine with the Firefox browser.

[SteveShannon]

On 4/25/2025 at 1:56 PM, helfrich said:

I've been unable to login to CORES. Have others had luck this past week?

Did you get to the page where it sends you a six digit number or did you not even get that far?

[GrouserPad]

On 4/18/2024 at 7:45 AM, GP62 said:

I got my GMRS on Feb 29.....It took 2 days......I'm guessing there is a recent avalanche of HAM and GMRS applications that the 1970's vintage government systems cannot handle.....

Is there a reason there is a sudden “avalanche” of licensees? Did something happen to suddenly make these licensed  2 way radio services popular ? Possibly the prepper movement?

[SteveShannon]

44 minutes ago, GrouserPad said:

Is there a reason there is a sudden “avalanche” of licensees? Did something happen to suddenly make these licensed  2 way radio services popular ? Possibly the prepper movement?

The message you’re responding to is over a year old. GP62 hasn’t been seen in about half a year.