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It really surprised me while in "G" land (The U.K.)
I applied for my reciprocal Licence,
within six working days I got it with my call [ M/VU2UKR ]

In case a  HF A licencee can opt for an ALternate Location of the station at the time of  application.
so that he can operate his station his permanent location with his/her CALLSIGN
when operating from the Alternate Location,  the call can be his/her     CALLSIGN /A
when operating mobile the station could be identified as his/her     CALLSIGN /P  followed by the  "Location "
in case of VHF the handy should be permitted as mobile ...why is the govt. allowing the import of Handy's ...
when they don't serve the purpose  rather it is "Forced to act as a base station"
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WPC should accept the fees in the form of Indian Postal Order as
well as a DD of any nationalised bank  of India.
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Different Prefixes should be alloted  region wise, which helps decentralising and efficient managment of licencing. Monitoring station in charge shoulds be authorised to give temporary permission to change of location for demonstrations. rather than a communication with WPC in Delhi  which may take years to respond.
The DX'ers world around are looking for Andaman / laccadives, the ministry should give permission for at least the DX-Pedition teams to carry out their activity for a limited period atleast.
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Digital modes, the fast changing trend should be taken care of,
timely change of rules required in this fast changing world arround.
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Special prefixes should be alloted to those apply it for the contest
purpose IN TIME .
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Packet Gateways / Internet Gateways should be allowed.
Since most of  HAMs can access a CYBER CAFE .... [ for those who
have no internet connection at HOME ] and the people who have no
RIGs to Operate with ,  once you have your mutimedia PC
connected to the Internet , you can get connected to the HAM repeaters
in different countries then have your Dxing at a much lesser Expense ....

Example http:/www.qsl.net/g3zhi
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If a police verification is not  recvd in three months, take it for
granted  as verification OK and issue a Temporary licence , till the
clearence is over
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Bringing HAM radio equipment from Abroad should be included in
bagage rules. Duty to be excempted. Rules should allow the import
of TNC / Modems / and gadgets for Digital modes
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Rather than giving all these suggestions  I may put forward a simple way to increase the HAM population in India is to SIMPLY CLEAR  THE BACKLOGS OF LICENCING PENDING IN WPC, our number will be more than Double I bet.
To do so the present manpower to write the Licence should be increased. The Licencing is still a MANUAL Task, in this DIGITAL age, the Communication ministry is still running the  PAPER workshop with a minimun of 3 to four files to update to create a single Licence, with the same entry being done. The ministry should at least go in for a computer network of monitoring station in differnt parts of India, a central control could be there from the Delhi, This may reduce the burden of people to come to the capital for the enquiry and other matters.
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(Name)  Sunil.U.K  [ handle U.K ]
(Callsign)  vu2ukr
(email)  http://www.qsl.net/vu2ukr
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