Thailand's radio amateurs to get WARC bands

Good news: the long-awaited permission to operate on the WARC bands (30, 17 and 12-metre bands) is just around the corner, according to John (Narissara), HS1CHB, who told those present at the June 4 RAST meeting that the NTC had agreed to issue temporary permission for those radio amateurs in Thailand who notify them of their desire to do so.

To qualify for this privilege, which includes permission to operate on the 80 and 160-metre bands, amateur radio operators should send a copy of their station licence, their equipment licence and their operator's licence to John at P.O. Box 1, Bangkok 10900.

They should also submit logs of their operations on these bands to John on a monthly basis, as the NTC requires that these be submitted as well. This temporary permission will be valid until the end of the year, and officials said that the yet-to-be-formed National Broadcasting Commission would need to be in place before any permanent spectrum changes could be made.

If you qualify to operate on the WARC bands in Thailand (have HF privileges, an HS/E2 callsign and station licence and equipment licence), please send photocopies of these documents to HS1CHB this week, i.e. before Friday June 9, 2006, so that John can process the group request and include
your name and callsign.

Again, the address is: Maj Narissara, HS1CHB, P.O. Box 1, Bangkok 10900 For this and other announcements made during the June RAST meeting, check the RAST website at http://www.qsl.net/rast/

Tony Waltham, HS0ZDX

Source: Radio Amateurs of Canada

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