In message , Light of Aria
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:32:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

Even without an amateur licence, you should not need a Broadcast TV
Receiving Licence to receive amateur transmissions (analogue or
digital).

Well I stand corrected then.

I based my comment on a recollection that the TV receiving licence
used to say that it was a licence for the reception of tv broadcasts
including those of amateurs.


There certainly are some amateurs broadcacsting TV...

The standard UK amateur radio licence is not a broadcasting licence. It
is a licence specifically for amateurs to establish 2-way communications
with other amateur stations. It is irrelevant how many 'eavesdroppers'
might be listening!

One of the notable exceptions is for operation using a special licence
(held by the Radio Society of Great Britain) which allows the
transmission of news broadcasts about items concerning the Society and
amateur radio in general.. Most of these broadcast use mainly just
radio, but there are a few using TV signals, and you can watch the
newsreader reading the news (just like 'the real thing'!).

These news broadcasts are transmitted from ordinary amateur station
around the country, on certain specifically approved, normal amateur
frequencies (usually on Sunday mornings). For these broadcasts, all of
these stations use the callsign GB2RS. See
http://www.rsgb.org/news/

When the stations are operating under the GB2RS callsign, they are not
licensed for 2-way communication (something which is specifically stated
by the news readers at the end of every news broadcast). After a news
broadcast is completed, the readers revert to 2-way operation using
their own callsigns, usually in order to be able to receive calls and
discuss any reports from other radio amateurs who have been listening,
and who want to call them to give any reports about the reception of the
news broadcast.
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Ian