[Waverley ARS] FW: [WIA-NEWS] ACMA Amends Amateur LCD

[Raffy Shammay]

Dear Members,

The ACMA has amended the LCD- Finally!

73
Raffy VK2RF


 

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ACMA Amends Amateur LCD
08/ 02/ 2008
In May 2004, following extensive consultation the ACA (now the ACMA)
published the Outcomes of the Review of Amateur Service Regulation (the
Outcomes) and while the restructure of Australian amateur licences took
place in October 2005, the bulk of the other changes foreshadowed were not
addressed.
Read the full story... 
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2008/20080208-3/index.php

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ACMA Announces Successful Amateur Outsourcing Candidate 08/ 02/ 2008 The WIA
has repeatedly expressed its concern that its role as the manager of the
amateur examination system had no tenure and therefore it did not have the
security to justify its investment in the system.
Read the full story... 
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2008/20080208-1/index.php

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ACMA Issues Class Licence for Visiting Amateurs 08/ 02/ 2008 The ACMA has
issued a class licence to allow visiting amateurs to operate in Australia
for up to 90 days using their home call sign followed by the suffix VK
followed by "portable" and then the location of the station, without doing
anything more.
Read the full story... 
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2008/20080208-2/index.php

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The Changes To The Amateur LCD
08/ 02/ 2008
In August 2003 the ACA published a discussion paper 'A review of Amateur
Service Regulation'. It took into account the changes made to the
international Radio Regulations affecting the amateur services by the World
Radiocommunication Conference in 2003, including the removal of Morse code
as a treaty requirement for operation below 30 MHz.
Read the full story... 
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2008/20080208-4/index.php




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