{"id":11141,"date":"2014-10-13T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2014-10-13T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:35:21","slug":"important-ofcom-licence-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/all-regions\/2014\/10\/13\/important-ofcom-licence-review\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPORTANT &#8211; Ofcom licence review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The RSGB held its regular meeting with Ofcom last Thursday and, as you will know, Ofcom attended the Convention at the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10883\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/09\/ofcom-building-and-logo-150x105.png\" alt=\"Ofcom building and logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/09\/ofcom-building-and-logo-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2014\/09\/ofcom-building-and-logo.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Feedback from those events is that\u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 300 or so people have responded to the consultation document so far<\/li>\n<li>Ofcom will be relying heavily on the volume and content of the responses as evidence of what the amateur radio community feels about the proposals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst we published some explanatory notes on the website soon after the document was released, it is apparent that many amateurs have not yet read the document which is far from straightforward in several places.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the questions posed by Ofcom appear simple, there are various important points that may not be entirely obvious on first reading of the document.<\/p>\n<p>We are thus today publishing further guidance together with suggested responses to the key questions at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/ocguidance\/\">www.rsgb.org\/ocguidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is now just one week before Ofcom\u2019s consultation period ends\u201420 October\u2014and thus time is of the essence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB held its regular meeting with Ofcom last Thursday and, as you will know, Ofcom attended the Convention at the weekend. Feedback from those events is that\u2014 Only 300 or so people have responded to the consultation document so far Ofcom will be relying heavily on the volume and content of the responses as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,274,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-regions","category-front-page-news","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}