Not really jimmied, just the way the federal government works. When you get an amatuer radio license it's good for 10 years. So it "expires" in 10 years, but not really. You get a 2 year grace period that you are sitll listed as licensed if someone looks up your callsign. They did this because sending out a notice when a license expired was too expensive. So if you use that 2 year grace period and pay the fee to renew you next experiation is 10 years from when yours expired, so 8 years from when you renew lol. I only renew because you don't have to retake the test ever if you keep renewing. The feds, hard at work.
But they sent me a PDF with two copies of my license. One to go in my wallet which is not required and another larger one they say is suitable for framing. Umm I'm sure 0.0% of people do anything other than not print it or throw it in the trash. Feds at work.
Either way. I'm good for 8 years and probably a 2 year grace period after that, who knows it comes and goes.
