Ofcom website getting sorted at last ?

[BlueSkyNick]

Looks like a couple of major upgrades going on, which is good news ...... unless you planned to change VHF reg details this weekend, like me.
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Welcome to the Ofcom Licensing Service
This newly improved service allows you to update your details, apply for new licences and check the details of any current licences that you hold. In order to do this you will first need to register by submitting your contact details and choosing a password on the following pages. Ofcom will then send you a unique username by email that will allow you access to the system.

Users of assistive technology should note that you are now able to use this service. If you experience any problems please get in touch with the Amateur and Maritime team.


As part of Ofcom's ongoing programme of service improvement, our online licensing system will be unavailable during 18-20 and 25-27 April 2008. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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[VicS]

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Looks like a couple of major upgrades going on, which is good news

[/ QUOTE ] Yep, posted that announcement on here yesterday, at least the final paragraph. The new system that has now been running for several weeks is miles better than the old one that we struggled with for over a year. but presumably also has some bugs to iron out.

Have you done as suggested at the start of that thread and checked your details on the ITU database? However, Ofcom acknowledge that it takes a while for that to be updated so don't expect any changes you make to appear on there immediately.

What is rather worrying perhaps is that the Coastguard say it is quite common for the info they hold or can access to be wrong. There is no way AFAIK of checking that from our end but "alldownwind", who is a CG CRO, will, hopefully, be looking into it.

 

[graham]

Have been meaning to change details on ours but put off by the fiasco last time I tried to use offcoms site. Hopefully after the maintenance it will be really slick and easy ,maybe,perhaps...... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[VicS]

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it will be really slick and easy ,maybe,perhaps.....

[/ QUOTE ] the new system thats been running since around the beginning of March I think is nothing like the old one but I think I probably managed to stuff my licence up when I had a look at it in early March. It seemed fine at the time though.

 

[Kawasaki]

5/6 maybe even 7 weeks ago I 'renewed' (on the Web)
Heard nowt , recieved nowt, is that it Vic?
Or do I need to contact them.
Der know as it is, I can't be ars"d if I get a 'Disc' or not!
83 ish since My first one.
In those days it all seemed to happen so easily.
Web thinghy said"It's in the Post Mate" etc etc. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[VicS]

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I 'renewed' (on the Web)


[/ QUOTE ] If you had a valid licence in 2006 with a renewal date after the start of the lifetime licence scheme (October 2006 IIRC) you should have automatically received your renewal free of charge.

During the first couple of months the on line scheme was not operating so they would have sent you an old style , ie annual, licence for free but when that expired they should have sent you a "lifetime" licence also free.

From December 2006, IIRC, any licences expiring would have automatically have been replaced, without charge, by a lifetime licence.

To repeat: if you had a valid licence on 1 October 2006 it should have been renewed for free without requiring any action on your part and by now you should have a lifetime licence.

<u>There is no facility to renew a licence on line</u> as there is no reason to do so just for "first timers" to apply for one.

If you register with Ofcom you will be able to see your licence on line and if you wish down load and print it.

I have printed a copy onto A5 paper for convenience to keep on board.

Since Dec 2006 people applying for a licence for the first time have been able to do so on-line for free and down load it and print it for themselves.

Anyone who had failed to renew an old licence before the new system started had to cough up the £20 fee and do it by post.

The discs are no longer issued, gone, finished, history. People objected when they were first introduced but now they all want one !

Wait until they have finished bu$$ering about with things before you tackle the online thing!

Provided you have registered you can use the online system to make changes or add or remove equipment to your licence all for free. Radars, epirbs, portables change to DSC, change of address etc can all be done on line. You then print the revised one with the new gear on it.

At 10 year intervals you will be required to re-validate your licence.

I think thats covered just about all of it!