{"id":40945,"date":"2025-07-04T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=40945"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:57:24","slug":"revalidate-your-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2025\/07\/04\/revalidate-your-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Revalidate your licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you revalidated your licence?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ofcom<\/strong> <\/a>notes that whilst it is a requirement to revalidate your licence every five years, it is recommended to do it annually.<\/p>\n<p>Put a reminder in your diary to revalidate your licence soon, as Ofcom has stated that it intends to implement phases two and three of the planned updates to the amateur radio licensing framework later this year.\u00a0These phases include changes to new and Intermediate call signs and rules for special event stations.<\/p>\n<p>You can find guidance on the process by going to the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/operating\/licensing-novs-visitors\/uk-licensing\/revalidation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB website<\/strong><\/a>. As well as FAQs, you\u2019ll also find a link to a step-by-step video by Ofcom, which shows you the process of revalidating your licence using the online licensing portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you revalidated your licence? Ofcom notes that whilst it is a requirement to revalidate your licence every five years, it is recommended to do it annually. Put a reminder in your diary to revalidate your licence soon, as Ofcom has stated that it intends to implement phases two and three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945","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\/20395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40970,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions\/40970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}