9 Apr
2021
9 Apr
'21
1:42 p.m.
The reason we operate as ISM actually is that it is not possible in the Netherlands to get
unattended operation licenses for 13cm and 6cm.
E.g. in Germany that is possible, and they use that.
Of course I would prefer to operate on the amateur bands when that would be possible, and
use more power.
(even when it would be possible to get such licenses it would likely be prohibitively
expensive, depending a bit on how they would exactly bill them. that could be "per
site" or "per frequency", but is likely to be the latter. the license fee
is 280 euro...)
But my point is that the authority is not interested in what happens on amateur bands,
unless there is interference to other services.
There is no priority for monitoring bands and acting upon observations. Only when
amateurs contact the authority with questions like "I notice that this station is
using music clips in their transmissions, is that allowed?" or "there is a
repeater on that channel that claims to be attended but I think it is not", there
will be general directives to point out that this kind of operation is not allowed. But
still there is no enforcement for it.
Rob
On 4/9/21 7:35 PM, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty via 44Net wrote:
Well, you operate it under ISM rules because the
Netherlands doesn't allow ordinary amateur traffic between 2400-2450 MHz accept for
QSO's with amateur satellites.
You pretend it is amateur traffic but for Dutch Law it isn't all, it just like your
wifi at home. There is no other option to do it there in another way. So that the local
authority is not interested is not correct, they are just not interested because they
regard it as non licensed ism WiFi traffic of non importance. (and that is why you can
encrypt it)
Bob VE3TOK