Renewing Amateur Radio License

tl;dr: Amateur licenses run for 10 years, and you can file the renewal in ULS starting 90 days before your expiration date or during the two year grace period after it. This walks through the ULS filing step by step, the $35 fee, and paying it in CORES within the 10 calendar day window. Before you start Have these ready: Your FRN, the 10 digit FCC Registration Number on your license. Your ULS password - either the FRN password or the password for an FCC Username account associated with that FRN. CORES access, with that FRN associated to your username account. Access to the email address on the application. $35 and an electronic payment method. The FCC does not accept payments by mail; anything mailed is returned to sender unprocessed. Renewal extends your existing license for another 10 year term with the same callsign and operator class. Requesting a different callsign is a vanity application, and moving up a class requires an exam. When you can file Window Can you file? Can you…