Originally Posted by
Sunfish
gerry, you’ve been conned. It’s a certificate of Proficiency not a license and it’s ignored. Anyone can buy, install and use a marine VHF ($229 at Whitworths). Nobody ever checks certificates, except some yacht club race officials. Any summer weekend you can unfortunately hear the results. An HF installation is a different matter.
I happen to have an operators licence - cardboard, issued in 1968, for HF and VHF. it’s only been inspected once - in Croatia when I chartered a yacht a few years ago.
I reckon you're right, Sunfish. On the back of my MROVCP there's item 3. "This certificate, issued under Section 121 of the
Radiocommunications Act 1992, is equivalent to the ITU Short Range qualification and allows the holder to operate VHF marine radios only." Item 4 states: "Use of this certificate for identification purposes other than in relation to the
Radiocommunications Act 1992 is not intended or authorised." So I probably can't legally use it to buy a slab of beer, next time I fly into Ceduna.