[Packet] OT: Ham rules
Kenneth Stringham
[email protected]
Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:39:59 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Miro,
I hope that you have contacted the American Radio
Relay League (ARRL) and Internal Amateur Radio Union
(IARU). These organizations have extremely helpful
information in print that can be shared with your
regulating authorities.
I have sent them my personal response supporting the
liberalization of your service. Personally, I feel
that this is something every free society should
encourage. A healthy Amateur Radio Service is a
National Asset. I provides a place for technically
interested people to gather and work together on
projects of common interest. It's a place where
various system arrangements can be tested without
pressure to produce a profitable system. It is a place
where interested young people can get hands on
experience with technology of all kinds.
I want to thank you for the opportunity to make my
personal views known to your regulating bodies. I wish
you and your colleagues well in your quest to improved
your service in the Union.
Regards...
Ken Stringham,
AE1X:kes
--- Miroslav Skoric <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Misko YT7MPB
> mailto:[email protected]
>
>
>
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