Hi Ward!

Thursday May 11 2006, Ward Dossche wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 >> MV> GPA receivers are so cheap these these and sea faring boats are so
 >> MV> expensive that if one can not afford the GPS receiver, one can not
 >> MV> afford the boat.

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

 WD> It is very cheap ... little boat fishery now even use inexpensive
 WD> underwater radar to locate the fish.

Yes, it depend from owner.

 >> MV> tOn he 2003 World Radio Conference article 25 was amended and only
 >> then could national governments drop the morse test.

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

 WD> You bet they make rules. This is based on international treaties,
 WD> rattified, transposed into national laws.

I am uncertain...

 WD> Should your country ever join the EU then you will find-out that some
 WD> stuff such as directives do not need national laws in order to be
 WD> enforceable all over the place.

Yes, but only for EU laws, not "EU recomendations".

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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