XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur
From: no.sp@m.com
Brian Morrison Wrote in message:
> On 08 Mar 2018 14:20:14 GMT
> Rob wrote:
>
>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>> > In message , Gareth's Downstairs
>> > Computer writes
>> >>On 08/03/2018 11:50, Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed wrote:
>> >>> The Icom UK D-STAR repeater, GB7IC, nears the magical figure of
>> >>> 2000
>> >>>D-STAR callsign registrations. GB7IC's first registration was way
>> >>>back in April 2008, and ten years later nearly 2000 people have
>> >>>registered via our repeater to the gateway
>> >>
>> >>Presumambly all CBers and fools' licensees wanting BBC quality
>> >>telephone conversations, for whatevet else it is, it is definitely
>> >>not amateur radio.
>> >>
>> > While it's undeniable that all this modern stuff is wonderful, I'm
>> > not sure that I really approve of having to 'register' for anything
>> > that uses the amateur bands.
>>
>> Here in the Netherlands you need to register to use the amateur bands
>> at all. There is no license anymore, you only need to register a
>> callsign.
>>
>> (pitfall: to register a callsign you need to logon to some webpage
>> for which you require a username and password which you get only after
>> passing an exam)
>
> Interesting, I discovered today that this is also true of Sweden
> although there are moves there to vary the power limit and charge people
> quite a lot for staying at the current 1kW limit as opposed to the
> proposed 200W limit.
>
> --
>
> Brian Morrison
>
>
The Swedish National society have been issuing the amateur
licences for some years. It has been mentioned on here in the
past.
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