[Sderby] Radio licences

[sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk]

>From what I understand there are three catagorys: Foundation, Intermediat=
e
(formally Novice) and Full.  Intermediate and full have an A & B, as desc=
ribed
below.  The Foundation takes about a day of training and allows you somet=
hing
like the original Novice access.  Intermediate is a 6 month course, which=

allows 50W on 6m and below and the Full licence allows you anywhere excep=
t
HF unless you have a full A.  The intermidiae A allows limited HF access.=


Anyway, to cut a long story short, we'll get the whole LUG licenced and
become South Derby Ameture Radio and Linux Users group!

Mike.
2E1HFW

>-- Original Message --
>To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
>From: Andy Davidson <andyd@lug.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: [Sderby] Radio licences
>Reply-To: sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:54:02 +0100
>
>
>At 21:03 05/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>OK, now its starting to look a bit more promising, whats involved in 
>obtaining a licence.

I thought someone more authoritative than myself would reply before now,
so 
I was keeping my mouth shut, because t
>e procedure may have changed in the 
last few years since I recited this information with some certainty..

When I last considered getting a license, just before going to university=
,

the particulars were :

  Class B license - allowed to operate
>on 70cm and 2M bands
  Class A license - allowed to operate on shorter wavelengths (talk to 
people further away).

To obtain a class A license, you need to secure a morse-code proficiency

test, and have a Class B license.

To obtain a class B 
>icense, you need to pass a Radio Amateurs examination 
which is set by the City and Guilds authority - the paper is in two parts=
,

a Radio Practice paper (which is quite easy, if you want to become a Radi=
o

Amateur this should be all the motivation 
>ou need to become proficient 
with this section of the examination !!), and an electronics theory paper=
,

which I say is quite hard, but I'm useless at anything electronic, so I
did 
struggle through the chapters in the Radio Amateur Examination Man
>al.  I 
might fare better this time.

Ever since I was a Club Amateur, there's been pressure on the Radio 
Authority to make the examinations more inclusive before the hobby dies,
so 
I hope it's got substantially easier to get a license (I don't 
>now why you 
need to pass Morse proficiency, to operate on frequencies where most peop=
le

communicate by *talking to each other*, and I don't understand why the 
electronics test has to be so strict..).

If it has got easier than I'll certainly ha
>e found an renewed interest.


-- 
Regards, Andy Davidson
<andy@nosignal.org> 


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