Ham Radio Licenses Around The World - Australia, with Hayden! Ham Radio DX

[@HamRadioDX]

Look at this handsome bloke! Thanks for having me on the channel Josh, always a pleasure!

[@5150bhc]

Thank you. That was very interesting.

[@M0RMY]

Hayden is a fantastic ham radio advocate, a good educator and an interesting source of ham radio stuff. Thanks mate you are a great ambassador for Australia - obviously that all will change during the Ashes. 73!

[@HamRadioDX]

Haha thanks for the kind comments Tom - although, we’ll see about the Ashes ;)

[@_Kovayne]

This is gonna be an awesome video series!

[@TXLorenzo]

Wow, OZ is pretty expensive. The annual renewal here in Italy is a whopping 5 euro. Once you do it for ten years, you are done for life. You also get antenna rights for your house.

[@vk3xe]

I'm in Australia, and working on getting my foundation license. On top of the costs, there is the issue of the accessibility of the practical exam as well. I've done the study, and can pass the practice exams no worries, but need some hands on experience to prepare for the practical exam, which Covid has made very hard to access. I'm now booked in to sit for my US technician license, and then try and get that transferred over, to then start the ACMA waiting game. (Also strange that it was easier to find a ready to go session for the US exam, in Australia than it was to go through the correct channels locally)

[@TomR459]

where are u in australia

[@ampegor]

Glad i am in Canada. No fees for testing.

[@hamandshortwaveradioirelan4773]

Licensing in United Kingdom 🇬🇧 is the way forward for the hobby. No license fee and online renewal every 10 years.

[@roninsc]

Verrrrry interesting! Great content. Looking forward to the next one in the series.

[@MuddRats]

great show, i am glad i found your channel. Looking forward to using my new UV-5R once it arrives. Thanks for all the tips and information you have provided on that specific model. Its my first ever radio that isn't a short range only device.

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

"Stralia Maaate. Taking it in the ass since 1770. We get ripped off for near everything now. Australian produced products are cheaper overseas than they are in Oz, how does that work? No surprises that when people 'make it' they move to the UK or US.

[@dtl5623]

I had a look on the website & decided I wasn't interested enough to follow through obtaining my ham licence here in Australia. I'm not paying these fees & doing all this study & still have these restrictions. I also don't know any prepper who'd want their address publicly published because they have a ham licence.

[@CWB-RF]

That's quite a bit of fees in Australia! While I think the cost of fees plays some small part for the number of Ham Radio operators in a country, I think culture or region plays a bigger part. Japan has the most Operators of any country and it's not an easy process nor is it free, at least not up front. I believe they even need a separate license or certification for the station equipment itself i.e. transceiver and antenna and that has a fee attached to it and to be renewed every 5 years.

[@A.R.O.T.A.]

People from all over the world can learn what restrictions each country has be it band or power restrictions. Excellent idea for a series Josh! I look forward to all the other videos to come.

[@don_n5skt]

We have talked a lot about this in discord chat with several Australian and British amateurs. This is a fascinating topic.

[@yamakawa511]

A key difference between the US and Australian assessments is that the Australian Maritime College does not publish the licence assessment questions or even allow the volunteer examiners to look at the contents of the current exam papers. Old exam papers are available for study but they don't necessarily line up with the current question set. Y

[@AD6DMDennis]

This is a great series idea, and Australia fascinating start to it. I've heard hams in other countries really need to jump through hoops to be able to share in this hobby. Do Australians have the same EMCOMM / volunteer public service drive that our major ham orgs and agreements push in the U.S.?

[@AD6DMDennis]

Also interested in the reciprocity agreements with US hams. That's how I start reading up on licensing in other countries, when I start planning out a possible visit. From what I know, a U.S. ham need not register or apply for a temporary visitor's license in Oz, but have to prepend (or was it append?) "VK" to their normal callsign when operating there. For some countries you need a specific license grant to operate as a foreign visitor.

[@rufusrizzo78]

Thanks! I was talking to some folks in Europe, and was wondering about the differences

[@morgidvmw0mdv]

Wow, I'm glad I'm not an Australian ham operator. In the UK the only payment you have to make is for the exams and that's around £30 to £40, There's no cost for your licence and so long as you inform the the licencing authority every 5 years your right to go. Like Australia there are three licences here, Foundation, 10 wats ERP, Intermediate 50 wats ERP, and full licence 400 wats ERP 73 Dave. MW0MDV

[@TheButterZone]

Depressing that UK does better at not taxing global, infrastructure-independent freedom of speech now, than their former colony is about to soon. Wonder if OFCOM will lifetime-permanent Full license a US citizen/resident Extra who doesn't plan to ever leave the US.

[@grahamsecr3677]

400W ( or 26dBW ) is the same as Full licensees in the UK. There are some lower limits on certain bands or parts of bands. Foundation limit is 10W and Intermediate is 50W. Interestingly Foundation licensees are also allowed on 136kHz and 10 GHz at 1W.

[@GoA7250]

Did they cover the $198 RCC/RPL fee?

[@chazrw2chz290]

Thanks for all the great information Hayden. 73 de W2CHZ

[@HamRadioDX]

Thanks Chaz!

[@RichardHopkinsLobosSolos]

The odd numbers on the limits sounds like the old engineers story about standard American railroad gauge and where that came from.

[@9x19freedom]

Which of these 3 HT would you recommend boafang uv r5 tyt th UV 88 or tyt th 350 I'm a beginner interested in getting into ham radio for SHTF situations

[@TheNoCodeTech]

#TeamReplay for the win!

[@tylerdean980]

This is radically different from the US system. Do you think the fees offset the easier testing?

[@bluejohnnyonly9770]

In Australia, I wish we could follow New Zealand mode of one licence type with up 1000watt.

[@HamRadioDX]

1KW would be really nice

[@RobinPringle]

And the exam fee is only $5 with a $95 admin fee. That's it for life, no yearly charges at all.

[@1337flite]

400W PEP is I believe about 100W. We covered this in our foundation training - our trainder did a demonstration with a power meter. So with a 10W PEP limit if I am transmitting AM I can set my radio to about 2.5W to generate 10W PEP so as a rule of thumb the PEP is about 4 times the power the rig is set to. So I'd guess the 400w PEP limit comes from that rule of thumb and the common 100W output of a radio. I reckon the $50 tax per year is not a bad thing over the long term. In countires wiyhoiut a tax the administration can easily say "we want to sell off this amateur spectrum because it is valuable resource and we get nothing for it". In Australia we can say "well you dear Administration you get $X a year for us for the spectrum we use".

[@THESPORTINGCAMP]

Greetings from Houston, Texas.

[@EA3IUE]

Josh, great video! I hope you will cover more countries in the future, e.g. Spain. 73 de IZ1IGK

[@moozoowizard]

in Australia ACMA makes your licence address available in public. so if you don't want burglars searching for your address to steal your expensive gear you also need at PO Box for $144 per year.

[@RodBergren]

I love the dog whinnying in the video

[@RichardHopkinsLobosSolos]

You pay us and we protect you from interference sounds a lot like, "Nice place you have here, be a shame if something 'happened' to it."

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Hahahah lol

[@joboring8397]

Random question. Would you guys says that getting your license is worth giving up your Fourth Amendment rights?

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

You don’t give up you’re fourth amendment rights.

[@joboring8397]

@@HamRadioCrashCourse Ok. So warrantless searches does not really apply to hams? Just technically? Do you not have to agree to allow the FCC to inspect your equipment whenever they want?

[@ryanv7075]

@@joboring8397 Their most recent podcast covered this topic, and Josh plans to do a video to address it as well.

[@joboring8397]

@@ryanv7075 Thank you, Ryan.

[@joboring8397]

​@@HamRadioCrashCourse Thank you for the recent video on this subject, Josh. I do know the purpose of the law, and I do not deny its importance. I am not worried about honest executions of it, and I still have my concerns. It is hard to trust the Federal Government with ANYTHING. I will stick with receiving only for the time being, but may get my license sometime in the future. My newest addiction is SDR and just ordered an SDplay DUO! No transmissions from me...

[@ReedAB8AS]

Josh, Is that your pup to your left wanting some attention ? 🙂

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

My youngest son. Lol

[@ryanv7075]

@@HamRadioCrashCourse 😂excellent

[@danx7143]

The licensing thing is not quite right. you don't have to pass foundation or standard first if you can pass advanced off the bat you only pay once. Source: I sat my advanced license and passed without doing foundation or standard first. This is in contrast to the american system where you have to pass each level in sequence. Seperately, Part of the reason the 1kW trial didn't succeed was that a lot of the people audited using the higher power permit trial either didn't use it or failed to do what was required of them in terms of EMR protection. Overall though this was a well thought out informative video, Thanks Hayden and Josh

[@sheiraeaarrell9215]

Australian Licensing is about to experience a shake-up as ACMA is taking over all of the licensing, the Australian Maritime College will no longer be in charge of examinations and other associated business as of early 2024.

[@SbrGrendel65]

$1.00 for lic fee here soon with $34 tax 😂

[@ReedAB8AS]

Enjoyed the video guys. Thanks.

[@piterex7]

Should be free nowadays !!!

[@alanhughes1262]

Don't try and operate in the philippines i spent a fortune and they won't renew the licence if you come from Australia the new amca online is being watched by other countries making it virtually impossible to operate in some other countries i was retiring in the philippines now i will cancel it unless i sit for their exams which is another pain.The us licence is a much better option as its recognised worldwide due international agreements .

[@DaveW6OOD]

Those "taxes" make if pretty painful. I guess those of us in the USA can stop complaining about the $35.

[@tylerdean980]

Don’t stop, or you may end up with a 90$ fee before you know it.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

No I think we keep complaining. But also respect what other in the ham fraternity are experiencing.

[@HamRadioDX]

Yes definitely keep complaining! You don’t want the fees to increase any higher that’s for sure

[@chrisbeerad8835]

get on 20m more H