Hey, Dave... How is it that your British civil servants are "dimwits", while ours over here are so handsome, debonair, talented, sophisticated, intelligent and... of course... witty?
Just ... wondering..... 8^) 73, Jerry K3BZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "mausoptik ltd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charles Harpole'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: RE: [DX-NEWS] U.K. licensing changes? > Hi > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------
