Here is some Thailand ham radio info for your reading pleasure....
Thailand gives recripricoal licenses to a limited number of other country's
citizens, including USA, UK, and vy few others. Non-citizens can not take
Thai exam and get Thai license.
Visiting operators can use the HS0AC Radio Amateur Society of Thailand
(RAST) club station after small fee to join RAST. The station mgr can help
via RAST web site. Station has Mark 5, two towers with 15 beam and
multi-band yagis and dipoles. Lots of space for installing temp. larger
wires and verts. Access is 24/7.
Getting ur own permits: Thailand requires eligible ops to get recrip.
license upon presentation of passport and home country license. Foreign
hams get prefix of HS0Z__ __ , no exceptions. With a Thai license, u can
get an import permit for a radio, but the radio must be prior identified
with serial number, and must not xmit on 6meters, nor bands above 2meters.
A rig with 6meters (or 60meters) will not be approved--do not bring it.
With an import permit, u can bring the stated radio into the country.
Present copies of ur permit and ur license at the red customs line upon
arrival. The rig will be taken for inspection--several days to several
weeks wait-- and u have to go get it back when ready. Then, u take all
paperwork and radio to the NTC (National Telecommunications Commission)
office to have it approved for use--several hours to several weeks wait.
When ready, go get ur rig which will now have papers and a small sticker on
it with approval.
Then, u can get a station license/permit for your chosen location (home).
This will include a map to ur location and all previous paperwork provided.
There are relatively small fees for each stage of this game.
If u or your family member has clear title for the land, u can put up a
tower(s) or get permit from the condo asn.
After that, u can operate ur Region's allocations on all modes, but can not
operate on 160m nor 80m except during unspecified ham radio contest days and
even then on sliver bands near the bottom, llike 3.500-3.530 or so. Today,
no WARC band xmission is permitted (with occasional exceptions granted to
special event ops) and never 6m. nor bands above 2m.
Power limit is 100 w for generals and 200w for above license grades. Do not
ask.
The RAST web site is the best info site for all this and more.
Best prop. time to HS from beyond 1000 miles is 1200 to 1400 Z, Thailand
mornings do not seem to like the grey line, but its evenings do like it.
RAST national meetings are first Sunday of each month, lately at Sena Place
Hotel in Bangkok, 11 am to about 2pm, bar hopping afterwards is optional.
There is a very large Thai population licensed for 2meter only ops (and they
often get further permit for mobile ops) and a few repeaters (several of
which were recently installed via the insistance of the King, HS1A). The
King has been known to call in on 2m. and many in the royal family hold ham
calls. Very few Thai nationals operate HF and the foreign licensees on HF
number less than 25 or so.
The South East Asian net meets about 1200Z daily on 14.320 and there is a
Thai language 40m net SSB about that same time. This net, SEANET, will hold
its international convention in up country Thailand (Lampang) in November
2007. All hams are invited, of course.
Entry visa (free) for most foreigners is routinely awarded upon arrival,
good for 30 days and oddly renewable indefinitely by simply exiting the
country anywhere and returning, even 5 minutes later. Longer term visas and
retirement visas are possible. Foreigners work only via a permit.
Interestingly, there is an airport exit tax of about $15 usd--free entry,
tax upon exit (by air at least).
Maybe this is more than u wanted to know..... 73
Charles Harpole.... HS0ZCW
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