[UK-CONTEST] Revision of our Licence

[Dave Sergeant]

On 4 Aug 2005 at 13:57, Mark Marsden wrote:

> 
> I have had discussions with colleagues here at work who work with Ofcom.
> 
> 
> I wanted clarification of what Ofcom meant by "Question 5: Do you agree
> that WT Act licence exemption for radio amateurs is not currently
> practical?"  
> 
> The opinion here is that in terms of the WT act there are some
> transmitters that are licence-exempt some examples of these are mobile
> phones, WiFi 802.11 and keyfobs. 
> 
> If Ofcom persue de-regulation of amateur radio the odds are that by
> then:
> 1) you won't have a licence
> 2) you won't be able to operate abroad
> 3) no DxPeditions (unless you already have an overseas licence)
> 4) no R&TTE exemption so individual homebrew equipment will have to be
> tested to ETSI specs
> 5) you won't be able to import amateur equipment that needs a licence
> 
> There's more, but just this list alone prompted me to respond. I majored
> on the economic value of DxPeditions and how individuals spend tens of
> thousand of pounds on stations that need NOV's. 
> 
> Bear in mind that we are now communicating with economists, and there
> are some who think radio waves stop at county borders.
> 
> 73 Mark G4AXX

I have read a small selection of the responses on the Ofcom site (at 
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/aradio/responses/?a=87101) 
and dispite wide differences in opinion on the matters of licence for 
life and free licences they are unanimous in their rejection of the 
idea of licence exemption in questions 5 and 6.

You will find my response there as sergeant.pdf - I seem to have 
written one of the longer responses! And there seem to be rather a 
lot more responses there now than there were when I checked earlier 
this morning, maybe the message is getting through.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com