From: Simon Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...snip
For example, searching the ACA's database for '122.5' returns four licensees listed against that frequency - two gliding clubs and two priviate individuals (!) - and no sign of an entry in the name of the GFA.
Do the same for 122.7 and 122.9.
I've just ratted throught the ACA link and I think the answer to your puzzlement is that the listed licences are for base stations. I know my club at Central Coast pays to operate a licenced base station (122.7 and 122.9) and I'd guess all the other clubs with ground installations do too (bloody likely!). I notice that GCV and ASC both pay to operate a base station on all three gliding frequencies 122.5, 7 and 9.
I believe that aeronautical mobile stations don't need a licence to operate on any of the allocated aeronautical frequencies (118.05 to 136.95) but base stations do and the ACA list is a list of licenced ground stations.
122.5, 7 and 9 are "the GFA's" in the sense that a request to operate a ground base on those frequencies by a gliding club would be almost automatically accepted. There used to be a 'frequency allocation plan' on which 122.5, 7 and 9 were reserved for gliding operations but still required individual clubs to apply for a licence.
Cheers, Graeme.
(Go to http://www.aca.gov.au/pls/radcom/register_search.main_page and plug in '122.5 Mhz' as the starting and ending frequency and hit 'search')
Graham, methinks you know the back-story here. I'd sincerely love to know what is up on this front. Can you tell us what it is?
Yours in confusion,
Simon Hackett
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