Henny McGregor requested information from Ofcom on any meetings held with the RSGB in the first six months of 2017.
Among the information supplied by Ofcom were several licence charts included in a Power Point from a presentation given at the meeting with the RSGB on February 23, 2017.
These charts were:
• Live Licences by issue date (up until January 30,2017)
• How many years holders of Live Licences have held them
• Licence volume 2010-2017 showing numbers of Foundation, Intermediate, Full, Club and Reciprocal
The Live Licences by issue date chart shows two very prominent peaks around 1977 and 1981. The reason for these peaks could be because:
• The mid-1970's saw a surge of interest in 27 MHz AM/SSB CB radio. Radio amateurs were actively involved in the campaign for legalisation most notably James Bryant G4CLF who became President of the newly formed UK Citizens Band Association in 1976
• In 1981 27 MHz FM CB was legalised
What do they know - Ofcom FoI request
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... ng-1015433
The licence volume chart shows that Ofcom had not revoked some 15,000 licences identified as Unvalidated back in May 2013. Figures released subsequently confirm that these licences, which have not been validated since 2007, remain Live Licences to this day.
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