ARLA/CLUSTER: Quirguistão atribuiu licenças a radioamadores em 2m e 70 cm

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Kyrgyzstan to issue 2m and 70cm licences

SARL News reports a South African amateur working in Kyrgyzstan is
keen on VHF and indicates that country will soon get 2m and 70 cm
licences

The amateur is Charles Kelley, ZS6AJZ and he lives in Kyrgyzstan. His
new call sign could be EX0CK. The officials collected his application
on Thursday and it is expected that licences will be issued by May 7,
2018. His old call sign was EX0/ZS6AJZ, now he is being issued with a
local call sign.

Charles informed Pieter, V51PJ that the government is busy finalising
the licencing of the amateurs there. With the enthusiasm of us on VHF
and above, he got interested in VHF and UHF too. The seed planted in
him now spreads to a country that never had VHF privileges available
for amateurs before. So yes, the dream for Africa is not impossible.
We must just stay positive and active.

Africa has lots of thunderstorms and rain, which make it perfect for
backscatter, lightning scatter and rain scatter as well as super
seasons of Sporadic-E and Meteor Scatter. But how to get their
interest?

Pieter Jacobs, V51PJ, says he has friends in the communication
department in Namibia that have personal contact with the people in
the communication departments in African States. They regularly get
together and discuss ITU regulations for Africa.

Pieter will contact them this coming week and see what they can come
up with. This is where it must start. Because the ITU gave frequencies
for amateurs, but some countries do not issue licences because no one
has asked for the frequencies to use as an amateur. They only stick to
HF!

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