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As far as I know it was just a proposal along with others such as extending licensing for life and extending the licensing period to 10 years. Currently we have to renew every year.....and this means that civil servants have to do a little work once a year for their money. I can't see deregulation happening myself, though this is not because I have any faith whatsoever in Ofcom (the licensing authority) or any other of the dimwit civil servants - but more because of the international regulatory implications. Surely this would have to go through a WARC, wouldn't it?. My feeling is that they'll extend the license period. There's more on the RSGB site www.rsgb.org.uk Regards Dave G0OIL -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Harpole Sent: 11 May 2005 01:58 To: [email protected] Subject: [DX-NEWS] U.K. licensing changes? QST: The May meeting of the Radio Amateur Society of Thailand was circulating a document that appeared to say that all ham radio in the United Kingdom would be completely deregulated... that no new licenses would be issued, existing ones not renewed, and that the ham bands would be open season for anyone to operate there from U.K. Now, I may have not understood what I was reading there, but maybe someone has direct information. Exact info or not, this brings up the most important issue for DXers and for all ham radio. It is one thing for a national government to empower a ham club to do licensing... it is entirely a different and much more distressing thing to think that a government will simply stop having anything to do with ham radio. Other than opening the airwaves to (more) chaos, if hams anywhere are operating without a real license, then we who remain licensed anywhere else can not, by international treaty and local law, have any contact with them, I think. Gasp! Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] THE DXR is sponsored by the North Jersey DX Association. Please visit our website: http://www.njdxa.org/index.php scroll to bottom for subscribe/unsubscribe options ----------------------------------------------------------
