[UK-CONTEST] Revision of our Licence

[Don Beattie]

I've been following this thread.

I can draw a parallel with the issues we have with PLT and the European
Commission.

The EU has said on many occasions "there have been no complaints (of
interference) so there can be problem". We KNOW there are PLT trial systems
out there radiating at high levels (they have been measured) but getting
enough people to lodge a formal complaint is really hard work.

So on the licence consultation issue, it is REALLY IMPORTANT that Ofcom
understands that there is a significant number of amateurs who have a view,
and who will need to be taken into account in determining the final
strategy. I also have the view that the people at Ofcom (overall - there are
a few exceptions) just do not understand either radio communication (the
technical aspects) or amateur radio. The old RA has been decimated, and
Ofcom is primarily lawyers and economists.

We need to speak up, chaps !

73

Don

PS my response went in last week.

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bob Henderson
Sent: 06 August 2005 08:25
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Revision of our Licence


Well, I don't agree with either of you but that's just me.  Disagreeable!

If we, the amateur community, demonstrate a lack of opinion on that which
will affect us, then decisions affecting us will be taken in ignorance, by
those in authority.  We, the amateur community, will then get the screwing
we probably deserve.

I won't recite detail of the issues under discussion or argue the merits of
any particular stance but if you guys have read the documents from Ofcom and
the RSGB and have concluded this is not an important issue, then either you
don't have your thinking caps on or you're trapped in a parallel universe.

IMNSHO.

Bob, 5B4AGN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Farmer (G3VAO)" <G3VAO at HortonBC.Demon.co.uk>
To: "Steve Rawlings" <steve at alg.demon.co.uk>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Revision of our Licence


> I agree with Steve in addition I feel that any input from the actual
people
> who will be affected by the changes in this case the Amateur would be
> ignored as we have a biased opinion!
>
> Mike
> G3VAO
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Rawlings" <steve at alg.demon.co.uk>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Revision of our Licence
>
>
> > 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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