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Hi John

Nice to see  your  still  keeping  watch  up there  (up as in  north)

Well  Im sure  5  will  keep  rolling  on, but with  allocations   starting 
to  go  WW ,  may  be the  experimental  angle is  getting  a  bit  thin , 
funny  thing  I found a  print  out  of  a  article  last night  , where  I 
and  two  other  stations  had the  first  ssb  qso's  when the  band  was 
allocated , some  time  back  now : )   from the  last  convention , 
visitors  could  of  walked  away  , without  realising there  where  Lf /MF 
bands and  one about to  be  free  issued  , however  there  was  a  5  meg 
update ..

With the  retirement  of  R W  , from  ofcom , things  seem  to  be a 
little  sticky in there  these  days  , I tried to  transfer the  gb4fpr 
nov  to  my  keeping  as  the  original  holder is not  too  well  these 
days  , only  to  be  told  yes , then  no ,  odd  as I applied for  it  in 
the  first  place as  overseer , having 500  nov   for  my  station , my 
name  is  all  over the  documents ..

Just  have to  wait  and  see , pity  it's  not  formalised , could of  had 
a  good  new years   party at the  fort

73 -G..

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From: "John Pumford-Green" <gm4slv@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:37 PM
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Subject: Re: LF: UK - MF - LF

> On 15/12/2012 21:21, Graham wrote:
>> strange  compared to  the  progress  made  round  the  5  meg  band
>
> Not sure what you mean G.
>
> There's no solid info about the requeirement for applications for new NoVs 
> for 5MHz either. There's been no definitive statement that existing NoVs 
> will continue, using the newly published frequencies, or whether 
> (annoyingly) that new applications will be needed by all interested 
> parties.
>
> Same shambles as the status of the MF allocation.
>
> On the MF front - OFCOM publically declared a few weeks ago that their 
> intention was to release the new band to all UK licencees on January 1st 
> (without the need for NoVs) but the joint RSGB/OFCOM announcement this 
> week would indicate that this isn't the case.
>
> Good job they don't run a brewery....
>
> John
> GM4SLV
>
>
>