Amateur Radio Licencing and Ships Radio Licensing Consultations

Next week the Ofcom Amateur Radio Licensing consultation is due to start.

Ring Ofcom on 020 7981 3000 NOW and ask for a copy of the Amateur Radio Licensing Consulation document which they will post to you completely free of charge.

One consultation that has just finished is the Ships Radio consultation. You may find the direct MCA-Ofcom correspondence published at the URL below provides a very useful insight on licence for life, database maintenance etc
and has some parallels with the Amateur Radio situation

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/src/responses/mca_ofcom/

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The rest of the responses are at

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/src/responses/

It includes RNLI, Royal Navy and Inmarsat responses which like the MCA are also concerned about accuracy of licence databases and its impact on Search and Rescue.

73 Trevor M5AKA

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