Talk:Amateur radio license

I've just created a blank page. I'm going to give people at least a day to comment on this proposed article before I invest a bunch of time into it. Please send your comments! Andrewjuren 23:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Having thought about it, this article might be better replaced by one titled something like "Amateur radio licensing in the United States", "Amateur radio licensing in Canada", etc. If so, then this page should either be deleted or moved. Andrewjuren 01:12, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I just resuscitated this article, as think there is more than enough material to justify a separate article and pull out some of the more esoteric details from the main amateur radio article.--Kharker 22:15, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I think this article is a good one, although I do not think that we should create a whole host of separate pages for each nation's take on licensing. E.g., rather than have separate pages for "Amateur radio licensing in the United States," I think we'd be better off having one page for "Amateur Radio licensing" and then have sections for various countries, as people want to add them. So put a section for the United States, etc. If this becomes too unwieldy at some point down the road, we could bump off the largest sections (US, UK, Canada, the major European ones I assume would get big first) to separate pages ... but I don't think it's worthwhile to create a whole bunch of stubs right at the beginning. If you do, I think people will just try to delete or re-merge them back in, and content may be lost. Anyway, aside from that I think the concept is a good one. I did some cleanup and made some small changes. --Kadin2048 02:56, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Picture of a Amateur Radio License in the US
Would it be wise to add this? I don't think I would have a problem scanning mine, except maybe blanking out the address, name and such. I think I could do this fairly cleanly. Unless someone doesn't mind displaying thier own license. As of now I think i'd have a problem with that being on a wikipedia. Lenn0r 21:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * As this page was merged into the main amateur radio page in 2011 (and that page is already rather image-heavy) it no longer makes sense to request this (even if it's a request which could be filled at least here in Canada... VE3RCS is part of the Military Communications and Electronics Museum so the station, licence and all, is on public display as a museum exhibit and appears in the CFARS article). I've therefore removed this from requested images for now. If the ticket itself ever is broken out into a separate article again, the request could be made at that point but makes no sense now. 66.102.83.61 (talk) 18:21, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Removed material
Removed these two paras because they don't belong in this article, being about ham radio in general.

Amateur radio operators are also called "hams" and the service is sometimes called "ham radio," even within some countries laws and regulations documents. The origin of the word "ham" is not clear, some suggesting it comes from the very early days of radio when operators were said to "ham it up" like a "ham actor" who overplays his part on stage. In 2004, K4VUD introduced a new definition of "H.A.M." to stand for Helping All Mankind, stressing the emergency communication facet of amateur ham radio. The "amateur" term is used to stress the legal injunction against amateur ham radio receiving any money from operations and the idea that an amateur pursues his endeavours strictly for the love of the activity.

Amateur ham radio is definitely different from "Citizens Band (CB)" or other personal uses of radio such as "Free Band" because the amateur ham radio operator is licensed via a government test and identity kept via strict rules that demand continuous recording of the amateur ham radio operators' locations and addresses (filed with the government regulatory bodies). The occurrences of unlicensed operations is increasing on all radio frequencies, partly due to the open availability for purchase of what are manufactured to be only amateur ham radio equipment.

Needs more info on requirements
I think the article is to vague on the requirements of the HAM operating license. I think we should add more detail to the article about this. I also think we should group the different countries by their standards on a easy, medium, hard scale.Southafrica6 (talk) 14:33, 21 June 2008 (UTC)