10-09-2018, 12:31 PM
With reference to 2), the lack of action by various radcom authorities, this has been going on for longer than there has been free licenses.
Our own ACMA is not really interested unless it is us causing problems with/to the commercial/services sector.
Most of it can be attributed to the reduction in funding of the various bodies around the world.
Even the FCC, which is probably the most proactive agency in the world in regard to ham activity, went through a long period of doing nothing and even now there is only the occasional spurt in activity.
I always wonder, considering how inefficient Government bureaucracy is, whether the cost of collecting our license fee is more than than what is collected. I suspect it is.
That would make an argument for either some form of free license or initial fee and then license for life.
Our own ACMA is not really interested unless it is us causing problems with/to the commercial/services sector.
Most of it can be attributed to the reduction in funding of the various bodies around the world.
Even the FCC, which is probably the most proactive agency in the world in regard to ham activity, went through a long period of doing nothing and even now there is only the occasional spurt in activity.
I always wonder, considering how inefficient Government bureaucracy is, whether the cost of collecting our license fee is more than than what is collected. I suspect it is.
That would make an argument for either some form of free license or initial fee and then license for life.