{"id":8504,"date":"2013-10-03T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T09:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=8504"},"modified":"2013-10-04T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T08:21:04","slug":"preparation-for-ofcom-licence-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/2013\/10\/03\/preparation-for-ofcom-licence-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation for Ofcom licence Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Jarvis, Ofcom, addressed the National Hamfest on 27<sup>th<\/sup> September with their thinking for the Licence Review.\u00a0He covered the reasons why the review was being undertaken and emphasised that it was not intended to be a radical change, but that the Licence Review was geared to be more explicit with regard to the wording of some of the existing clauses, on operational practice and to help extend the services available to\u00a0 Amateur Radio to encourage development of modern technologies.\u00a0 He went on to explain that whilst he was keen to hear views from those present at the Hamfest, his workload and staffing meant that he would not be able to enter into general discussions on the likely topics prior to the consultation.\u00a0 He did though stress that Ofcom were working with the RSGB as part of the pre-consultation preparation, and invited the RSGB to feedback general comments on the topics that he raised.<\/p>\n<p>To begin that process,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/rsgb-consultations\/ofcom-consultations\/\">two Litmus Tests<\/a> have now commenced and all\u00a0amateurs are invited to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Jarvis, Ofcom, addressed the National Hamfest on 27th September with their thinking for the Licence Review.\u00a0He covered the reasons why the review was being undertaken and emphasised that it was not intended to be a radical change, but that the Licence Review was geared to be more explicit with regard to the wording of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gb2rs","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}