Licensing information
for Ivory Coast - TU
Prepared by:
ON6TT-Peter & 9M6DXX - Steve
Status: Dec-95, July '99 links added, ‘08
Intro: If you have a foreign ham license, you will have no problems to get a
license in Ivory Coast, but it takes a bit of time and quite some paperwork
PTT:
Agence des Telecommunications de Cote d’Ivoire (ATCI)
Marcory Anoumanbo 18
BP 2203
Abidjan 18
Cote d’Ivoire
www.atci.ci
Tel. +225 20 3443 73 / 74 / +225 20 345 986
Fax. +225 20 344 375
Email: courier at atci.ci
Paperwork needed:
- Copy of your license
- Copy of your passport (including the page with your visa)
- two passport-type pictures
- in three copies: a one page 'Fiche de Renseignements' and a four page
'demande d'autorisation'
The best way to get a license:
Contact the local hamclub www.qsl.net/tu2ci : TU2FQ-Joel (club
secretary) tel: 21.59.57 or TU2OP-Jean-Jacques tel QRL: 24.09.91 tel QTH:
24.21.23
They will send you the necessary papers, and help you through the application
procedure, which normally involves a visit to the PTT, police and security
offices. Felix Koame, the PTT licensing officer, is a ham too (TU2MV). If you
pay him a visit, he might already allocate a call to you before you have the
necessary papers. He is a real nice guy.
Price:
CFA25,000 (US$50) per year.
Special calls:
you can not pick your own suffix. For the first year, you will get a temporary
license (TU4). After a year, you might get a permanent one (TU5)
How long before you can operate?
Normally, after a verbal agreement with Felix Koame, you can get on the air
(off the record). The paperwork, with help from the local ham club, takes about
one month.
License restrictions:
100W HF
Customs:
no problems experienced. As usual, you might have some minor discussions while
bringing ham stuff in, but nothing that you can not talk yourself out of it
Useful local contacts:
The local hams are very helpful (see also above).
The mailing address for the hamclub is:
Association des Radioamateurs Ivoiriens
01 BP 2946
TU5EX - Didier Euzet helped me a lot:
tel QRL: 24.98.44 fax QRL: 24.48.36
Places to operate from:
The ham club is open every saturday afternoon. It is on the estate of the PTT
monitoring station in the Marcory suburb (
Tips:
- bring your VHF HT. There are a couple of ham repeaters in
- plenty of ham activity by locals. You might consider bring some second hand
material, technical books etc.. with you and donate it to the club
pcasier at innet.be
DX Holiday TU - Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
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