Bronze C

Can anyone shed any light on this one?

A question in the bronze C paper reads as follows.

What are the requirements for a radio transmitting set installed in a retrieve car?

A Need not be licensed if on BGA frequencies only B Need not be licensed so long as it complies with CAA regulations C Must be licensed with the Civil Aviation Authority D Must be licensed with the ministry of transport.

'C' is supposed to be the correct answer.

Is this true???

What are the requirements for a radio transmitting set installed in a retrieve car?

A Need not be licensed if on BGA frequencies only B Need not be licensed so long as it complies with CAA regulations C Must be licensed with the Civil Aviation Authority D Must be licensed with the ministry of transport.

'C' is supposed to be the correct answer.

Is this true???

Yes, in a way. Any transmitter must have a radio license. Although I am not sure whether the CAA and the Radio communications agency are the same, just hiding under different names in order to get more money out of us, or are completely different?!?!?

If you want the email address for the guy who wrote the questions E-mail me privately and I will pass it onto you.

Cheers,

Yes, C is right.

The transmittor needs a license, about £15-20, but you don't need to have passed the radio exam to transmit as long as it's on the BGA allocated frequencies. But if the radio can transmit (just transmit, nothing about you using it) on other frequncies apparently you do need to have passed the test. I.E. most pilots with a 720 channel radio in the UK are breaking the law. For some reason this seems to get overlooked a lot, even by the CAA. In theory we should only have a four or five frequency radio, or have passed the radio exam.

(Did you know that if your hi-fi radio tuner can pick up the police frequencies (as many can) and you listen in, you're breaking the law as well?)

<snip> My old STS picked up both the police repeater near Barford SJ (listened to more than one pursuit) and Radio Canada International near Daventy (it even got hot to the touch there once).

Hopefully you Bicester boys stay out of the dish path at RAF What's It up the A43. Its very hot and deserves it's red blotch or circle or whatever's on the charts these days.

Frank Whiteley

I was told that the thinking behind this is that if you don't know what you're doing you could tune the radio to something important like Heathrow Approach and leave your finger on transmit.....