Southgate
31 March 2020
Spain's national amateur radio society URE has talked to their regulator and obtained permission for unlicensed people to use amateur stations during the Coronavirus lockdown
A Google translation of part of the URE announcement says:
After the publication of Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, declaring the state of alarm for the management of the situation of health crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19), for this purpose, and with the In order to accompany radio amateurs in the exceptional situation caused by the spread of COVID-19, the URE, in its commitment to collaborate and help to cope with the complicated situation we are currently experiencing in our country, presented to the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures a request for special authorization.
Today, the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures has issued a resolution granting temporary authorization for the use, under certain conditions, of radio amateur stations by people who do not have the required administrative authorization under the supervision of authorized radio amateurs. , while the validity of the state of alarm and its corresponding mandatory measures of confinement.
That the use of the aforementioned radio amateur stations will be carried out under the responsibility and direct and face-to-face supervision of the radio amateur and under the conditions established in the Regulations for the use of the radioelectric public domain by radio amateurs.
Read the full URE announcement at
https://tinyurl.com/SpainURE
The authorization is at
https://avancedigital.gob.es/espectro/radioaficionados/autorizaciones/Documents/resolucion-autorizacion-radioficionados-estado-alarma.pdf
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/march/coronavirus-spain-grants-special-authorization-to-radio-hams.htm#.XoM-j4hKjIU
(via Mike Terry via WOR io group)
31 March 2020
Spain's national amateur radio society URE has talked to their regulator and obtained permission for unlicensed people to use amateur stations during the Coronavirus lockdown
A Google translation of part of the URE announcement says:
After the publication of Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, declaring the state of alarm for the management of the situation of health crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19), for this purpose, and with the In order to accompany radio amateurs in the exceptional situation caused by the spread of COVID-19, the URE, in its commitment to collaborate and help to cope with the complicated situation we are currently experiencing in our country, presented to the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures a request for special authorization.
Today, the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures has issued a resolution granting temporary authorization for the use, under certain conditions, of radio amateur stations by people who do not have the required administrative authorization under the supervision of authorized radio amateurs. , while the validity of the state of alarm and its corresponding mandatory measures of confinement.
That the use of the aforementioned radio amateur stations will be carried out under the responsibility and direct and face-to-face supervision of the radio amateur and under the conditions established in the Regulations for the use of the radioelectric public domain by radio amateurs.
Read the full URE announcement at
https://tinyurl.com/SpainURE
The authorization is at
https://avancedigital.gob.es/espectro/radioaficionados/autorizaciones/Documents/resolucion-autorizacion-radioficionados-estado-alarma.pdf
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/march/coronavirus-spain-grants-special-authorization-to-radio-hams.htm#.XoM-j4hKjIU
(via Mike Terry via WOR io group)
