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PBO says I can now get a free lifetime licence on the Ofcom website but the website does not list ships radio licence among the options and the search facility yields the old form asking for £20.

Has anybody succesfully negotiated the Ofcom website to get to the new form? If so could they please give me a clue? Thanks
 
if you dont have an existing licence it will still cost you £20.

If you have one, you SHOULD get the free lifetime jobbie, when the old one is due to expire.
 
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if you dont have an existing licence it will still cost you £20.

If you have one, you SHOULD get the free lifetime jobbie, when the old one is due to expire.

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Until December, any licence than come due for renewal after October will be issued with the old style licence valid for a year, but no payment will be due.
 
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if you dont have an existing licence it will still cost you £20.

If you have one, you SHOULD get the free lifetime jobbie, when the old one is due to expire.

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All new licences are now free, see link in other post.
 
Thanks everybody - it's amazing that such a simple and welcome change has been so badly explained that even PBO gets it wrong - they make no mention of it not being on line until December.
 
Is it possible to get a license before actually purchasing the VHF. I have the form but it asks for callsign & mmsi No. I use a handheld at the moment but want to install a fixed DSC (have license for portable)

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I cannot answer you boatkid as I am amongst the 000s who don't have a vhf licence, don't abuse the system, and use the correct protocol.
I am also an unqualified yacht skipper, I'm mostly self-taught and have been sailing for 45yrs.

Does purchase of a vhf require the production of a licence?

Why not teach yourself and leave the form blank?
 
Yes it's possible to get a licence before purchasing a fixed vhf. The initial issue of a Ship's Licence allocates the Call Sign and the MMSI number to the vessel. But as has been said, why get the ships licence before you have the radio, as you already have a transportable licence.

Did you really need a transportable licence, as a matter of interest, as a ship's licence would have covered a transportable for the ship it was issued for and any tender belonging to the ship. The transportable licence is only required if you use your transportable on a number of (possibly) unlicenced vessels.
 
I filled in one of the forms on the offcom site, it wasnt labelled, I received a thankyou for my update but no licence came, still not sure what it was I filled in, but Ive learnt more about licencing from reading this thread than I did from offcom,
 
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but will they automatically send me another lifetime one between now and then? Or will I have to apply manually?

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The letter that came with it said that you would automatically be upgraded from December to the on line version. They seem to have it all in hand.
 
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