[Packet] OT: Ham rules

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:20:12 +0200

Hello gentle folks,

Well, recently I posted a message via the packet network:

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Hello all,

Well, here in Serbia, we are going to make the new telecom law. Amateur radio
activities are also about to be  regulated with the law. Our government, i.e.
governmental  agencies  for  telecomminications and  science  needs  as  many
information related to foreign experiences  in ham regulatory as available. I
am already involved in that  topic with several suggestions and  papers given
in some domestic ICT conferences. But ...

What I would like to see is some contribution that come directly from amateur
community. You are invited  to send your local/national regulatory principles
that govern the ham radio activities.  In particular you are asked to  answer
to some important questions:

- Is it needed in your country to be a member of ARRL in order to get amateur
licence (of course in USA, but  also goes for other national ham  unions)? At
the moment, in Serbia, here a person  has to me a member of the  national ham
union, as a legal requirement to apply for a licence.

- Is it needed to be a member of any local ham club, the same reason?

-  How do  you obtain  your ham  licences (from  the FCC  /or other  national
authority/, or  from the  ham union)?  Here we make the paperwork via the ham
union  who  then  sends  the application  to  the  governmental  agency. That
procedure is very slow and inefficient, so  many ham get no answer at all, or
they wait for  a 1-2 years  before they get  their papers. The bureaucracy in
the union only wants to get  the membership money and various taxes, but they
make the whole procedure very slow and almost impossible.

- What papers (if any) do you have  to  submit  when  you  apply  for  a  ham
permission? Do you  have to submit,  for example, a  citizenship receipt or a
receipt from the county where you were  born, or anything like that (as we do
here)?

- What is the procedure to get  the licence? Do you make it directly with the
FCC or you  use some other  agencies (like the  national postal authority  or
like)?

- How much do you pay for a new licence or to renew the old one, per a year?

-  Do  you  have  to  take  your  radios to a special service to be officialy
checked to see if your radios  meet some (unknown) national standards, or  to
check if the service's instruments "are better" than the Japanese radios (for
example)? Here we have to check  our radios, even the factory brand new ones,
before the  rest of  licensing procedure.  Our every particular radio has its
own separate permission, but not only  that. Our permissions are issued for a
period of 5 years. When the  papers void, another one "service check" must be
done again and  again. I suppose  that an official  check may be suitable for
home-made radios built from scratch, but what about modern transceivers?

- Some other suggestions and details you think might be useful ...

You should use the following email addresses:

[email protected] (Ministry of Science, Technology and Development)
[email protected] (Ministry of Telecommunications)
[email protected] (Agency for Informatics development)
[email protected] (the Government of Serbia)

Please use all of them because they are all involved in the new laws.

Of  course,  you  are  also  invited  to  send a CC of your email to my email
address and that is: [email protected]

Keep me informed. Any constructive help  is appreciated. I hope you can  help
us to make modern and better rules and regulations.

Regards,

Misko YT7MPB
[email protected]
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Case you think you may help, please do so. The law will be handled
next week.

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Best regards,
 Misko YT7MPB                          mailto:[email protected]