[UK-CONTEST] Draft of new licence

[Don Beattie]

Not outrage, Dave, just surprise.

The case you quote will NOT be covered by the new arrangements, as I read 
them. I have no problem with introducing a definition of "/A" when you want 
to differentiate an operation from /P. In both cases (assuming no advance 
warning has been given to Ofcom) you will need to announce your location 
from time to time and use the relevant suffix.

What I do feel is unnecessary is when you give advance notification to 
Ofcom, you will still need to sign /A. That is not really very logical.

In the case you quote, assuming you were not undertaking a premeditated 
operation and had time to tell Ofcom, you will still need to sign /P. There 
is no facility to use /A for an unnotified operation.

73

Don, G3BJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Draft of new licence


> On 4 Jul 2006 at 15:48, G3SVL wrote:
>
>> Agree with sentiment that /A is redundant. Why did "a number of
>> members" see it as necessary when they could have 2 locations already
>> - and do the RSGB consider those members were representative?
>>
>
> Well I was not one of those members who specifically expressed an
> interest to reintroduce /A, but I fully agree with the change. The
> specific case which comes to mind was when I was visiting GW4ALG
> quite a few years ago when NFD was on and I was tempted to go on and
> make a few QSOs from his shack. The option to use /A was not there,
> so I went on as GW3YMC/P and created quite a lot of interest. Pity
> under the NFD rules everybody I worked claimed the /P bonus points
> blissfully unaware I was nice and warm and all mains powered.
>
> So yes, it is a reasonable change, and I am surprised by the outrage
> shown by some on here.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
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