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Subj: Licence Fees
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From: VK2AAB@VK2WI.#SYD.NSW.AUS.OC
To : OFCOM@WW
I was interested to see that OFCOM had suggested removing the licence charge
and "deregulating" amateur radio.
There is a limit to how far they can go with that as the ITU regs have to
complied with.
However it did ring bells here. About three years ago ACA had a series of
meeting around the country where amateurs were invited to come and make
commnets on a paper which ACA had previously circulated and called for
comments and this was a follow up on that excercise.
The probably most important point was that ACA was suggesting that the amateur
service be made a "Class Licence" with no licence fee. There would be exams to
comply with the ITU regs but almost to a man we looked the gift horse in the
mouth and didn't like what we saw.
The CB service is a Class Licence here as are such things as garage door
openers, Low Interference Potential Devices, etc etc.
We could see that if we didn't pay a fee we would get the same interference
protection that those class licence services get, ie none.
So the result is we no significant change in our status.
73 Barry VK2AAB
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