{"id":9821,"date":"2014-03-24T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2014-03-24T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:26:37","slug":"ofcom-rsgb-forum-15-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2014\/03\/24\/ofcom-rsgb-forum-15-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom-RSGB Forum \u2013 15 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RSGBRSGB Officers met with representatives of Ofcom on 15 March as part of our regular series of discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The principal items were as follows:<\/p>\n

Review of Amateur Radio Licence<\/b>
\nOfcom are planning to publish proposals for consultation at the end of April (and will be reported in RadCom and on the website).\u00a0\u00a0 Ofcom will be attending the RSGB Convention<\/a> and the Hamfest<\/a> to brief amateurs on progress.<\/p>\n

Revalidation of Licences<\/b>
\nOfcom reported that, of all amateur licences on issue, over 40 percent have not been revalidated.\u00a0 The RSGB agreed to continue to assist Ofcom in publicising the need for all outstanding licences to revalidated during the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

VHF Spectrum Release Proposals<\/b>
\nOfcom will be publishing its proposals for consultation shortly.<\/p>\n

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ISS<\/b>)
\nOfcom have agreed in principle to issue a Permanent Special Callsign (GB1SS) to the ISS.\u00a0 This will allow Major Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to visit the ISS, and other licenced amateurs who may follow him, to use a British callsign during their stay.<\/p>\n

P<\/b>ublic Sector Spectrum Release<\/b>
\nOfcom intend to issue a statement in early April giving details of the future spectrum changes in the 2.3 and 3.4 GHz band.<\/p>\n

Renewal of Beacon and Repeater NoVs<\/b>
\nOfcom reported that letters had been sent to all NoV holders advising them of the need to renew by the end of March 2014.\u00a0\u00a0 The new NoVs will be dispatched during the last week of the month.<\/p>\n

2015 SSES Callsign<\/b>
\nOfcom agreed in principle to the approval of a special SES (similar to the Gx100RSGB callsign) for use during 2015 on a planned nationwide basis.<\/p>\n

Youngsters on the Air (YOTA)<\/b>
\nOfcom agreed in principle to issue the special SES G14YOTA for the month of December 2014 to allow young people in the UK to participate in the IARU YOTA on-air activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Locating Sources of Deliberate Interference (DQRM)<\/b>
\nWe discussed ways of working together that would enhance our efforts (both locally and internationally) to reduce deliberate interference.<\/p>\n

High Power use of PMR446<\/b>
\nOfcom drew attention to recent cases that were being pursued through the courts.\u00a0 Paul Jarvis will submit an article for RadCom<\/a> to remind amateurs of the regulations in respect of PMR446.<\/p>\n

Emergency Communications<\/b>
\nThe RSGB submitted a paper from RAEN for future consideration proposing areas for change in the licence that would enhance the service that they provide.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Date of next meeting:\u00a0 12 June 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RSGB Officers met with representatives of Ofcom on 15 March as part of our regular series of discussions. The principal items were as follows: Review of Amateur Radio Licence Ofcom are planning to publish proposals for consultation at the end of April (and will be reported in RadCom and on the website).\u00a0\u00a0 Ofcom will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ofcom-rsgb-forum","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821","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=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}