[UK-CONTEST] Revision of our Licence

Steve Rawlings steve at alg.demon.co.uk
Thu Aug 4 01:15:01 EDT 2005


I've read the questionnaire, but can't find anything in there to make me 
feel that a response is necessary.  This is probably the case with the 
thousands of other licensees who, like me, have not completed the form. 
  I don't see anything openly important in the document, or even 
anything hidden between the lines.

(Most of the really damaging changes to the amateur service in recent 
years appear to have been at the hands of national and international 
amateur radio societies, not the bodies that simply respond to such 
changes.)

But I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise, if I'm missing something.

Any replies to my personal email, please.


Regards to all,
Steve GW4ALG


Dave Lawley wrote:
> Contesters are an extremely active bunch. So get active on this one and 
> make sure to reply by 17 August. Out of around 60,000 UK licensees 
> (no-one seems quite sure of the exact number) only a couple of hundred 
> responses have been received to date. There is a danger that Ofcom will 
> take the view that there has not been sufficient body of input from the 
> amateur community, and will therefore feel they have carte blanche to 
> make whatever changes they choose.
> 
> Please visit
> http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/aradio/
> and
> http://www.rsgb.org.uk/news/q&aaug05.pdf
> 
> then consider all the issues, and make a response. Free licence for 
> life? Yeah great, but you can't get something for nothing and there is 
> great concern that it is a prelude to deregulation. Whatever else, I 
> think it is imperative that Ofcom receive a clear unequivocal NO to 
> question 6 about exemption from the WT Act in the longer term.
> 
> Former UK contester G4BKI has put together an excellent little page at
> 
> http://sciencetechnologyconsultants.com/UK.htm
> 
> which has all the links, including a Word document which you can 
> download, fill in with your answers and return to the Ofcom address 
> which is also listed on his page.
> 
> 73, Dave G4BUO
> 
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