Mark
Could you please delete me from the wkars mailing list until further notice.
Thanks in advance
Rodney Buckland
On 16 Aug 2015, at 10:42, Mark Kent <mark.antony.kent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We used a talk-through arrangement a couple of weeks back for the club 2m
Monday net. There was some discussion about it’s position with respect to
the licence.
http://rsgb.org/main/operating/emergency-communications/talk-through-units-guidelines-for-use/
"Ofcom have declared that Talk-Through is now permitted without the need for
a permit to be issued and without the need for the unit to be staffed.” [1]
There is more information at the URL, but the station must be ‘supervised’ by
the licensee, but not necessary ‘staffed’
Cross-band operation is explicitly permitted.
The RSGB have requested usage reports and clearly expect this to be used by
Raynet, but this doesn’t seem to be an Ofcom requirement.
The band plan recommendation is to use the emergency comms channels, but
again, this is not a licence requirement.
I’m happy to move the talk-through to 430.800 with a suitable CTCSS if there
is interest in setting up the trunk again.
I did use the talk-through this morning for the Darenth Valley net and
someone was clearly trying to deliberately interfere on 70 cms, so I’ll go
with CTCSS in the future. Aren’t people lovely?
Note 1: I’m not aware that it was ever not permitted, but the position is
now explicit rather than implicit.
73 Mark G8PHM
