Hello Vladimir.

11 May 06 18:36, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Of course one does not *need* a GPS reciever in a boat. My point
 MV>> was that GPA receivers are so cheap these these and sea faring
 MV>> boats are so expensive that if one can not afford the GPS
 MV>> receiver, one can not afford the boat.

 VD> For little boat fishery (rubber for river only, not sea) - it is very
 VD> expensive tools :-) !

And obviously we were NOT discussing that kind of boat. We were discussing
boats that could make use of the old beacons with morse code
identification. THAT kind of boat is a sea going boat operating in open
water. If you can afford THAT kind of boat, you can afford a GPS reciever.

 VD>>> Even country can establish own requments for our peoples...

 MV>> Not so, there are ITU regulations. Up until 2003 article 25
 MV>> mandated a morse test for amateur radio operators on frequencies
 MV>> below 30 MHz.  On the 2003 World Radio Conference article 25 was
 MV>> amended and only then could national governments drop the morse
 MV>> test.

 VD> They can make only recomendation, not rules. Every country may make
 VD> rules for own citizens.

It is true that formally they are called recommendations. But as Ward
explained in an article about the International Marine Organisation, in
practise these recommendations from UN organisations are laws that a
country can not unilaterally ignore at will. Not if it wants to deal with
the rest of the owrld. If one ignores these recomendations the ships will
be banned from entering harbours and planes will not be allowed to land. In
the case of radio amateurs, such a country will be on a black list and
amateurs of other countries will not be allowed to communicate with them.

Cheers,

Michiel

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