Radio Licence

[Chris_Robb]

I recently looked at my new radion licence and noticed that it had EPIRY DATE Feb 2002. So its expired before it started. I wandered round the marina and notice that all the licences displayed - expired in the early months of this year.


Anyone else had the same thing??

 

[dickh]

Hmm... just put mine on the boat - I'll check this weekend.

 

[Viking]

Could you let me know which marinas your berth at and I'll be round.

regards
VHF Radio Licencing Inspection officer.

 

[jimi]

Wotz an EPIRY?

nm

 

[Chris_Robb]

Re: Wotz an EPIRY?

Its a spelling mistake! EXPIRY

 

[Guest]

Re: Wotz a radio licence

nm

 

[bigmart]

I've just checked mine & it says 3rd May 2003.

Looks like you've been cought.

 

[brianrunyard]

You didn't buy it from a bloke in a pub did you????
Come to think of it, I've got a few old car tax disks for sale

Brian
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brunyard

 

[dick_james]

Just had a letter from radiocoms agency saying they are going deprive people of their callsigns and mmsi numbers if they don't keep up their license (in april 2003)

 

[dk]

The problem with that is devious folks will just make up their own MMSIs and program them into their radios, which will defeat the whole purpose of the 'unique' identifier.

It's time the RA got real.

dk

 

[graham]

Its time the annual radio license was scrapped.

I have allways advocated a one off payment when a new radio is purchased or the boat changes hands.

This would cover the admin cost and the unneccasary anual renewal could be scrapped,along with all the inspectors ,their landrovers ,boats and all the other junk which probably swallows up most of the license revenue anyway.

 

[dick_james]

Yeah, I tend to agree - does anybody know what our brethren boater in Europe do?

 

[Mike_Martin]

This is interesting, if you will let me have your callsign I'll look into it for you.

Mike

Manager,
Aeronautical & Maritime Section,
Radiocommunications Agency

 

[Mike_Martin]

Re: Wotz a radio licence

It is a licence as stipulated within Article S18 of the International Radio Regulations. It enables you to register your vessel with it's flag state in order to ensure it shows on the Maritime Mobile Access and Retrieval Database which is available to every Search and Rescue authority in the World. Here in the UK, CI & IoM it also supplies those details direct to HMCG.

Mike

Manager,
Aeronautical & Maritime Section,
Radiocommunications Agency

 

[Mike_Martin]

Chuckle

Mike

Manager,
Aeronautical & Maritime Section,
Radiocommunications Agency

 

[Mike_Martin]

A visit to our Website at www.radio.gov.uk would probably illustrate the fact that the work carried out within the Maritime radio sector is quite heavily subsidised by all of the other areas of radio within the UK that actually pay a great deal more in the way of licence fees for their services.

A specific visit to the Maritime Radio page and a brief look at past issues of the Air Waves newsletter will also illustrate the great value gained from a licence with a fee of only £20 per year.

Mike.


Manager,
Aeronautical & Maritime Section,
Radiocommunications Agency

 

[Guest]

Isn't Mike Martin just wonderful - hang in there son you get an OBE at the end or just as you reach the top a bird from Avon beats you to it.

 

[Chris_Robb]

Mike - i have been away
My call sign is MXRQ6

I have called them today, and they are sending out a new licence disc.

 

[Guest]

Why not introduce a discount scheme whereby if you buy more than one year at a time you get a discount with the max discount being for five years for example? Everbody could benefit.