FCC Legacy CORES System Retired as of 7/15 | User registration at FCC site required!!

From ARRL (thanks N8FZT for alert!):
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will retire the Legacy version of its COmmission REgistration System (CORES) on July 15, 2022. CORES is the FCC’s public-facing database that enables and tracks certain types of FCC and FCC applicant actions, including amateur radio applications and licenses. Please read this linked ARRL page for details:
https://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-legacy-cores-system-to-be-retired

Short version: FCC ULS site with information about our own licenses or that of others, using FRN (FCC Registration Number) is moving to an updated (CORES2) version of its CORES system as of July 15. All future interactions on the new site require one to have created a login User Name (usually in form of valid email address) and, of course, yet another Password, and then “associate” an FRN with that user. The FCC instructions, and process are, not surprisingly, a bit convoluted.
The ARRL site above has a couple of instructional videos to ease the process.

About Chuck Reti

LARC Public Info Officer (PIO) and Board member. Extra Class, ARRL Member Licensed since Dec. 1961 Video Engineering Technician, Technical Director and Video Editor, CBS Detroit and Detroit Public TV Member Soc. of Motion Picture and Television Engineers