[UK-CONTEST] Draft of new licence

[Dave Sergeant]

OK, I had originally only scanned the draft this morning, now had 
time to digest it.

It does indeed seem that the addition of /A is not what most of us 
would interpret it as. It used to be a mechanism of operating from a 
temporary FIXED location without needing prior notification. After 
notification the /A could be dropped. If notification is required 
then it makes it useless for the occasional unscheduled operation. I 
suggest Colin takes the comments from here and get them to reconsider 
it.

It is implied when operating in CEPT countries that you need to have 
the full licence with you, not just the validation document as at 
present. If as seems parts are repeated in German and France this may 
be a largeish document to take. If it goes missing can you just 
download a new copy???

I imagine there are quite a few 'little' things in it which ideally 
would need rather more than a week or so to iron out. Is Ofcom trying 
to rush things to meet their October 1st deadline?

73 Dave G3YMC

On 4 Jul 2006 at 16:37, Don Beattie wrote:

> 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.
> 

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