VHF Radio Licence

Athene V30

Athene V30

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I already have a 'lifetime' licence for the fixed VHF set on my boat but what so I do about the handheld I bought yesterday?

Do I
1. get a new licence
2. add to existing licenec
3. nothing!

Reading comments about the website and getting the initial lifetime licence I am guided towards doing 3.
 
You try to access the Ofcom web site, find that the user name and password are unintelligible and become frustrated. Come back later having gather all the paperwork you can and try again, finally after waiting until Monday and calling them you get in; but only after they post you another set of details.

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Seriously, you should add the handheld to both your license and your CG66.
 
Thats what I thought but the bl@@*y Ofcom website seems to drive me round in circles and I cannot key in the details of the radio! I have an 'technical amendment' saved but that expires 8 March 08 unless I complete the application which the user friendly - NOT website won't let me do!

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If you sometimes mess about on different boats, consider getting a new licence but make it a ship portable radio licence. You can then officially use your handheld on anybody's boat, not just your own boat or its tender, whether or not those boats have their own radios or licences.

You ought to be able to get this free off the website but I agree that it's sufficiently awful that filling a paper form and sending off twenty pounds completely needlessly begins to seem attractive /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Try and log in to the site and then try and access your original licence. You can then edit it yourself giving details of the new radio (after a lot of effing and blinding).
 
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Reading comments about the website and getting the initial lifetime licence I am guided towards doing 3

[/ QUOTE ] If you are not already registered do so. (link below) DO NOT forget your password while waiting for your user name to arrive by post ... write it down.

Once registered go to the ofcom website, http://www.ofcom.org.uk/licensing/olc/ read the notes and in particular the fix to the problem IE 7 causes if you are using that, then log on to the licensing service.

Decide if you want to add the HH to your existing licence or if you want a T-licence so that you can legally use it on an unlicensed vessel.

If the former, access your existing licence and work your way through it all adding your new HH at the appropriate place. Save the details at the end, then access the amended licence download it, then print it (Print an A5 copy as well for convenience)

If you want a T licence choose the ships portable licence option and proceed to complete the much shorter application for that.

EASY PEAZY. I don't know why computer literate people who use these forums find it so difficult!
 
I use that website for admin of my ham licence also, and it really is a poor design. Its possible to do really ordinary things, but try doing anything not so common and you can get into neverending loops.
 
I posted on this subject a few months ago, I consider myself vert IT literate but spent a very frustrating day trying to download my lifetime licence online, getting error messages from Ofcom web site etc, etc.

Not to be beaten I then tried again online the following day which happened to be a Monday and Hey Presto all done no problem, easy.

My thoughts were that any glitches or overload on their web site over the weekend had to wait for the tea boy to correct on Monday morning /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
 
I am suprised to here people are still inquiring about vhf radio licences, up in the northern isles of scotland i know of very few people that even bother with these licences any more I personaly have operated a vhf radio on my boat for over twenty years calling the harbour office and the coast guard and there has never been a problem.
 
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Glad I read this, I thought my 15 attempts to get into the website and five phone calls for new passwords was just me... what a hopeless system. Finally got my licence done on line - then went to print a copy.... blank document...no file at all in the PDF...lol Thats another phone call then.... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
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I am suprised to here people are still inquiring about vhf radio licences, up in the northern isles of scotland i know of very few people that even bother with these licences any more

[/ QUOTE ] It's because it's the law. Most people, at least in the southern areas, are law abiding citizens not like the self confessed criminals that inhabit the northern isles of Scotland.

OK fair enough then lets not bother with the requirement to licence a ships radio. Lets not bother with driving licences, firearms licences, TV licences and all the other licences. While we are at let say bo!!ocks to all the other laws that society deems necessary. We'll all live like the lawless criminals in the Scottish islands.
 
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EASY PEAZY. I don't know why computer literate people who use these forums find it so difficult!

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I'm with you on this. Only last week I had a client come in and ask me to sort out his licence - he does not have a computer. When I did his short range certificate I signed him up for his user name which he got. He came into the office and the only glitch was that he could not remember the sequence of his password. A call to Ofcom sorted that and they reset his password. They asked us to allow 1/2 hour for the change to take place, I sent the client off to the pub and said be back in 3/4 hour. True to his word he was back and we logged in - no problem at all! Filled in all the questions - now the guy was in fact changing his own licence and re-registering his new boat that already had an MMSI etc. It was in fact the ex MBM boat "Calm Voyager" that was having a P1 name change as well.

It took about 10 mins to send him off with his new licnece printed off and sorted. It was easy!
 
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I'm with you on this. ...... new licnece printed off and sorted. It was easy!


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At last! Mind you there are 29172 registered forum users that makes you and I versus about 29170!
 
Vic, how dare you exclude us north English from your condemnation - that's racial descrimination!

We, and the Border Scots Reivers have a proud history of robbery and murder. Unlisenced vhfs are a trifle compared to what our fathers got up to.

Vic my friend, relax, loosen up, worse things happen.
 
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I'm with you on this. ...... new licnece printed off and sorted. It was easy!


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At last! Mind you there are 29172 registered forum users that makes you and I versus about 29170!

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Nah, I know loads who have done it without any trouble. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I just emailed them my details and what I wanted done, had a copy of the ammended licence on email in a few hours, then a paper copy in post withen a few days.
They advised, even if I use H/H occasionally off the boat not to bother getting a portable licence, and just added it to the original lifetime licence.
 
You are right that their website is rubbish. You can find the amendment form and down load it without logging in. Print off, fill in and post. Replacement amended licence is free. Just done mine for the same reason - bought a handheld.
 
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