Proposed amateur class licensing arrangements and high power operation Comnsult.31/22

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Morning all, I've been watching this thread and trying to understand exactly what is a "class license" and how it will affect me as a foundation license holder?

Perhaps I'm a bit thick, cant understand exactly what changes will take place, perhaps someone can spell it out.

Thanks,
Jon. VK5WRJ.

Jon - The Class License is a totally different statutory type of radio License, to quote the ACMA "It is meant for users who are unaware of their spectrum usage". The benefits are that you do not have to pay annual License fees, but you will loose a lot of other privileges like certified issued Licenses which will cause many other problems, removal of call sings from the ACMA's RRL database, no protection against RFI issues, possible Equipment Type certification issues, call sign management shoved off to third parties, international License equivalency issues and having to meet strict ARPANSA EME requirements. Theses are only some of the issues that will affect us moving to a Class License, please read the WIA's very extensive and well written draft response for more information.