Irish Amateur Radio Exam agreement

A meeting was held last Monday between representatives
of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society and Irish regulator ComReg, which satisfactorily concluded ongoing discussions on the renewal of the examinations agreement.

The new agreement, which will continue over the next three years, will be signed in the near future.

The formal agreement with ComReg under which the IRTS
is responsible for setting, organising and correcting the examination for the Experimenter’s licence has, worked very satisfactorily, both from the point of view of ComReg and the Experimenter community.

The arrangement has made the examination, which is the
access point to licensed experimental radio, available on a regular basis.

Since IRTS took over responsibility for the examination in May 2005, seven examinations have been held. Almost 150 candidates have sat the examinations and 62 per cent of these obtained the HAREC qualification.

Source: IRTS