ARLA/CLUSTER: Alteração da Categoria 3 (Entry Level License) em França

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

France: Entry Level License

French national society REF has requested the regulator DGE support
the Entry Level License proposal made by IARU to CEPT's Radio Amateur
Forum Group (RAFG)

In a submission dated May 13, 2018, to a DGE public consultation on
the French amateur radio license the REF said:

We therefore ask for a very sensible simplification of paragraph 1.10
and in this context, the REF wishes that the Administration supports
the proposals made by IARU to CEPT's Radio Amateur Forum Group (RAFG)
on the introduction of an Entry Level License (ELL).

We are confident that a more accessible certificate under the
conditions proposed by IARU will, as in the countries which have
adopted this principle, increase in the number of radio amateurs in
France by easier initial access and motivation to progress towards
higher levels of competence.

More generally, we observe that in a large number of European
countries, the definition of exam questions amateur radio is delegated
by the regulator to the national associations of radio amateurs. Such
an organization allows matching the review and amateur radio
practices, and seems to us the most able to achieve the goal of
modernization sought by the decree.

REF also highlighted the need to permit unlicenced people to use
amateur radio for a short period e.g. students in an ARISS school
contact with the International Space Station.

The full submission can be downloaded in Google English from the REF site at
http://tinyurl.com/FranceREF