ACMA Consultation : non-assigned amateur regulatory arrangements

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The no-protection state is referred to in the very last line of the extract, although it does not expand on it. What is known is that CB licensees are a no interference-protection basis, either suffering from - or - generated by. That would then apply to amateurs too.

The amateur service is already in a defacto no-protection state, most times anyone complains about interference, you get told to go sort it yourself these days, so nothing will change on that basis.

The one thing that does bother me in the new proposal is devolving the power to issue callsigns away to a private body.
With all the current animosity between various bodies and other issues within the amateur service, I don't think this is a particularly good idea.