A licence is issued only after clearances given by the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of External Affairs.
Pay particular attention to the statement above.
I applied for a license to operate from Guiana a few years ago. I had to go thru a background check conducted by the Guyanese military. After
EIGHT MONTHS of researching my background (allegedly) I was finally given the approval to be "
licensed upon arrival". So I fly to Guyana & immediately go to the Ministry of Telecommunications in Georgetown to pickup my operating license.
Bureaucrat:
"Sorry, you background check is not finished yet". Me:
"OK, I'll wait here until it's completed". Bureaucrat:
"Sorry sir, this will probably take another three or four months to complete". Me:
"I was given approval to be licensed by your military background investigators". "Look, here's the email". Bureaucrat:
"The military background investigators differ from the Ministry of Telecommunications". Me:
"C'mon, I traveled all the way here from North Dakota and was told via email my background check was complete". Bureaucrat:
"I will inform the Minister and you can speak with her after lunch". So I wait & I wait in their dingy office while sitting in the worlds most uncomfortable teak chair...........Long story short, the Minister was absolutely worthless and I headed back to North Dakota two loooong weeks later.
So during my loooooong two weeks of doing nothing I decided to transmit
ONE (and only one) transmission of WSPR while running 1 Watt on 40 meters. Was this an unlicensed transmission? Yes it was, so shoot me. I wasn't going to use my callsign so I used the entirely made up callsign of PY1SWL in Brazil. Before I did this I made sure there was no real PY1SWL. Below is the screen grab of that single 1 Watt 40 meter transmission............Wow, talk about "
what could have been". I brought along my 500 Watt amplifier & some great antennas unfortunately it was all for nothing.
Looks like I'm now ready to be sentenced to 5 years in Ham Jail.
Tom KH0/KC0W