WSGV972 Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Anyone else not able to get into the website to check the system for updated licenses almost like they are attempting to stop all new licenses from being generated. It they are not issuing new licenses then the free for all to get up on the air will be chaos. Quote
OffRoaderX Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Yes - last night I was trying to look up someone's GMRS callsign that he posted on X so I could DOX him, and I was getting that same error. WRUU653, kirk5056 and Raybestos 1 2 Quote
dosw Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 35 minutes ago, OffRoaderX said: Yes - last night I was trying to look up someone's GMRS callsign that he posted on X so I could DOX him, and I keep getting the same error. You weren't trying to call your minions in his part of the country to coordinate their burglarizing efforts, since his X post made him obviously not home to defend the place? OffRoaderX, Raybestos, SteveShannon and 1 other 1 3 Quote
CaptainSarcastic Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 21 minutes ago, dosw said: You weren't trying to call your minions in his part of the country to coordinate their burglarizing efforts, since his X post made him obviously not home to defend the place? Life Goal #238: Have "minions" to do my bidding... WRUU653 1 Quote
WRNU354 Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 1 hour ago, WSGV972 said: Anyone else not able to get into the website to check the system for updated licenses almost like they are attempting to stop all new licenses from being generated. It they are not issuing new licenses then the free for all to get up on the air will be chaos. 14:04 Central ... Still down Quote
Raybestos Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Whoever is having this problem in 2026, please come back to 2025, BEFORE the outage in March of 2026. It might be better, back here. Quote
73blazer Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 I didn't have any issues. I did a lookup, and even logged in, no problem. Those errors are pretty frequent however. That website either needs more backend horsepower or more bandwidth or something as frequently over the years I get timeouts and the error shown in the 1st post. It's very random as to whose request go thru and who gets an error. gortex2 1 Quote
WSGV972 Posted March 13 Author Report Posted March 13 1 hour ago, 73blazer said: I didn't have any issues. I did a lookup, and even logged in, no problem. Those errors are pretty frequent however. That website either needs more backend horsepower or more bandwidth or something as frequently over the years I get timeouts and the error shown in the 1st post. It's very random as to whose request go thru and who gets an error. Being that I build datacenters I would give you that if this was a mom and pop shop that paid for the cheapest package at rackspace or WIX but this has been every hour on the hour since 3/9/2026. (I have a script running check this crap every hour) The main FCC site is up with the non-sense they are changing on it up there, but the meat and potatoes ULS DB being down from every Server, PC and MAC I have access to across the world tells me that they are purposely keeping it down. And if that is the case what happens to anyone that is trying to get their licenses upgraded or new licenses. Are they just going to be black holed. That isn't going to stop any of us from getting on the air. And now I can tell my friends to stand back and stand by as it looks like they might not have to bother taking any of the tests to or register any more to do any of this. So that just leaves all of us that have done the thing exposed with out info out there for the yahoos to do with what they wish. Like the "joke" the first commenter made. In any event, I have people waiting on license notifications and of all times for them to dick around they do it now. gortex2 1 Quote
SteveShannon Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 15 minutes ago, WSGV972 said: Being that I build datacenters I would give you that if this was a mom and pop shop that paid for the cheapest package at rackspace or WIX but this has been every hour on the hour since 3/9/2026. (I have a script running check this crap every hour) The main FCC site is up with the non-sense they are changing on it up there, but the meat and potatoes ULS DB being down from every Server, PC and MAC I have access to across the world tells me that they are purposely keeping it down. And if that is the case what happens to anyone that is trying to get their licenses upgraded or new licenses. Are they just going to be black holed. That isn't going to stop any of us from getting on the air. And now I can tell my friends to stand back and stand by as it looks like they might not have to bother taking any of the tests to or register any more to do any of this. So that just leaves all of us that have done the thing exposed with out info out there for the yahoos to do with what they wish. Like the "joke" the first commenter made. In any event, I have people waiting on license notifications and of all times for them to dick around they do it now. I had no problems looking up license information an hour ago or so. WSGC763 and gortex2 2 Quote
WSGV972 Posted March 13 Author Report Posted March 13 6 minutes ago, SteveShannon said: I hadn’t seen no problems looking up license information an hour ago or so. yeah still nothing. I will come at it from Kentucky or Texas and see if they are just dropping connections from certain geographic locations like I did yesterday. Cuz they might just only like you. LOL Quote
SteveShannon Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 7 minutes ago, WSGV972 said: yeah still nothing. I will come at it from Kentucky or Texas and see if they are just dropping connections from certain geographic locations like I did yesterday. Cuz they might just only like you. LOL Maybe they blocked you. Is there something in particular you’d like me to look up? Quote
LeoG Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Just looked up my own license and put it in correctly and it bumped it up by 2 digits and gave me someone elses info. So I went back and indeed I had entered it correctly and then pressed seach again and it came up with me. Using this URL https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchGmrs.jsp I went to the FCC login for registration and FRN stuff and it took 3 minutes before I got a response from the server. Quote
WSHH887 Posted March 13 Report Posted March 13 Not sure if this applies, but the social security site shuts down at night. Quote
WSGV972 Posted March 13 Author Report Posted March 13 14 minutes ago, SteveShannon said: Maybe they blocked you. Is there something in particular you’d like me to look up? Not yet let me see how much time it takes them to block me from Texas...lol Now that I am in from there. But you might be right someone might have nothing better to do. Quote
SteveShannon Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 5 hours ago, WSGV972 said: Not yet let me see how much time it takes them to block me from Texas...lol Now that I am in from there. But you might be right someone might have nothing better to do. If you’re attempting a db read or worse extract every hour they may have blocked you thinking that you’re testing for a denial of service attack. Raybestos 1 Quote
WSEZ864 Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 I just went to the FCC ULS Search site and searched my amateur call and it popped right up. Quote
WRYZ926 Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 I just looked up my GMRS and amateur call signs and the FCC website worked just fine. THeir website has always been flaky. Sometimes it works and other times it will time out. It did take a few seconds longer for the system to pull up my amateur license. But there is also a bigger database for amateur licenses compared to GMRS licenses. It's been a few moons since I messed with data bases. But I would some of the issues with the FCC website depends on how many people are trying to access the system all at once. I do agree that the FCC system definitely needs improvements. Quote
FishinGary Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 It's just slow and has intermittent issues. I've done ULS searches before and it's taken up to five minutes to return results on occasion. Quote
gortex2 Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 In the 20+ years I've been using the FCC site it rutinely has issues. This is nothing new and normally the next day things are fine as it is right now. Quote
MarkInTampa Posted March 14 Report Posted March 14 It was down in yesterday morning when I saw this post, back up in the afternoon. The FCC data base is and has been SLOW for a long time. I just looked up my call and it took 11 seconds. I ran a query of all active licensed GMRS users in my town (92 of of them) and it took 10 seconds. Weird. Edited: Just for fun I ran a query for all new GMRS licenses sorted by Grant Date in the last 1 year. Left off Call Sign, Name and FRN from screenshot. 28 in total. What I found odd is that we normally see 2-4 new licenses a month. Only 2 so far this year. gortex2 1 Quote
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