Notifying The R.A.

As part of the license conditions, we are required to inform the R.A. at lease 14 days in advance of where and when the sets are going to be used. Obviously if a team is called out at short notice this is not possible. In this situation, notifying the R.A. after the event should be okay.

Officially, the notification has to be in writing, and needs to contain the license number, date, time and location of the event, a list of teams attending and all callsigns that will be used. However, in some areas the local teams have built up such a rapor with their local office that a single letter sent each January stating that the radios will be used in their area for the forthcoming year is sufficient. It can not be emphasised strong enough that this is purely because REVCOM have an excellent reputation, and we must do everything necessary to keep it that way.

The office that requires the notification is the one that is responsible for the region in which the event is taking place. This is important to remember when you are going to be working outside your normal area. This is especially important for those teams who normally get away with only sending one letter per year. As a matter of courtesy, it would not hurt to send your local office a copy of any letter that you send to neighboring regional offices.