I have a question that came up at the end of the day. The assessor said we need a portable ship licence for our radios. If you look on the Ofcom website, they only talk about DSC VHF and if you don’t have an MMSI number the form tells you to leave it blank and they will allocate one. This seems barmy if you only have a voice radio. Can anyone make sense of this?
Hi Martin, my phone has run away from me, I had it in the teaching room, and the inter web now says it's in Torpoint. may have accidentally put it in the cable bag of our instructor... Would you be able to contact him and ask ?
Answering my own question, I’ve now spoken to someone at Ofcom about the Ships Portable Licence. If you have a voice only VHF radio without DSC you leave the MMSI box blank when entering your radio. They will issue you with an MMSI even though your radio can’t do anything with it. He said this doesn’t matter. He confirmed that there is no other way to enter a voice only radio on the system.
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Hi Shelley, you're welcome to join the course for a refresher. In this case, you would do the training but skip the assessment at the end.
The webcollect fee covers the training (we are charged per person) so you would need to sign up on webcollect if you're interested.
Thanks for today Martin, great course
I have a question that came up at the end of the day. The assessor said we need a portable ship licence for our radios. If you look on the Ofcom website, they only talk about DSC VHF and if you don’t have an MMSI number the form tells you to leave it blank and they will allocate one. This seems barmy if you only have a voice radio. Can anyone make sense of this?
Thanks for organising the course Martin.
Hi Martin, my phone has run away from me, I had it in the teaching room, and the inter web now says it's in Torpoint. may have accidentally put it in the cable bag of our instructor... Would you be able to contact him and ask ?
Answering my own question, I’ve now spoken to someone at Ofcom about the Ships Portable Licence. If you have a voice only VHF radio without DSC you leave the MMSI box blank when entering your radio. They will issue you with an MMSI even though your radio can’t do anything with it. He said this doesn’t matter. He confirmed that there is no other way to enter a voice only radio on the system.