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AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY OF
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ARSK Callbook
Updated 26th JUNE, 2009
ARSK NEWS
Information from CCK is that visitors licenses will now be limited to only 3 months on first issue, to cover the usual tourist visa period, but may be extended for up to a year in 3 month increments without further payment. We are denied use of the enhanced 40 meter band from 7100 kHz to 7200 kHz, in spite of its allocation to the Amateur Service by ITU, and there is no indication of when 6 meters may be permitted on a secondary basis.
Bob Allphin Jr. K4UEE, has been granted a visitor's license and will be operating from Naivasha during July.
Brod Purdy, G4RBP, expects to be operating QSP CW at Kilifi in October.
Steve Howard, W8SMH, has arrived in Nairobi for a long stay and is applying for a license.
Steve Kemp, 5Z4LA, has most generously donated a rotator and rotator for use by the Shack station 5Z4RS. We are most grateful as lack of a rotator inhibited full use of the beam. It remains to be fitted.
The CCK Amateur License application form RF2 has been modified with effect from 24th April and now comprises only three pages rather than five, making it easier to download from the Internet. Hopefully it is also easier to understand. If the new issue is not available from the CCK website it can be sent by e-mail from ARSK.
Applicants sending US Dollars for license payments should be aware that notes dated earlier than the year 2000 are often refused for local exchange, but if accepted they are liable to a much reduced rate - at the full rate of Shs.78 they would be valued only at about Shs.72.
The regular Bulletin and net has reverted to 7075 KHz every Sunday now that propagation seems to have returned to normal.
Bob Alphin, Jr. K4UEE has applied for a license and expects to be operating near Naivasha in July.
Congratulations to Joel Wamalwa Mukoche of Friends School Kamusinga, Kakamega, on being licensed as 5Z4BQ.
PAYMENT OF ARSK DUES ETC.
Subscriptions become due on 1st January. Unless private arrangements can be made the advice of the Secretary or Treasurer should be sought on transmission of subscriptions in foreign currency. Restrictions on third party cheques cashed by forex bureaux have now been lifted. Cheques drawn on foreign banks attract high charges, however. Current (mid-March) exchange rates for US$1 is around Shs.80 or more and £Stg.1 about Shs.112. All rates vary daily and should be checked.
PAYMENT OF LICENSE FEES
We have pressed for a fixed US Dollar fee for applicants from outside Kenya, to ease the variable exchange rate and remittance problem, but so far the CCK have been unable to accept this. CCK is now looking into easier methods of payment from overseas but transfer costs are usually very high for the relatively small amounts involved.
CCK WEBSITE AND LICENSE APPLICATION FORM
The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) website may be seen at www.cck.go.ke and a copy of the Kenya Amateur Radio license application form RF2 should be downloaded from that site. In case of any difficulty ARSK will send a copy of the new form by e-mail on request.
UGANDA AND TANZANIA
Licensing
information available to us for Uganda and Tanzania has been added below the
Kenya information on the Licensing page, for the benefit of potential visitors
to East Africa. Tanzania information should be available at
www.dit.ac.tz
and
http://tarc.dit.ac.tz/index.php . This URL
also lists conditions for reciprocal licenses in Tanzania (http://tarc.dit.ac.tz/foreigners.php).
(Thanks to Michael Fuchs, DL6MAF, for this information.)
Please note that these offices are completely separate
from the Kenya authority and must be dealt with directly.
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CUAGN SN! We look forward to working you on the air, seeing you here in person and hopefully in the not too distant future we may be able to assist and advise in getting visitors' licenses. Watch this space in case we get further good news for intending visitors.
As we say here: "Kwaheri ya kuonana!" - we'll be seeing you!
- 73, GD DX -
