Speaker 1: Getting a ham radio license in Venezuela. Who controls this.
Speaker 1: Now might be the time. If you're in Venezuela, now
Speaker 1: might be the time to go out and get your
Speaker 1: amateur radio license because it's not going to be restricted
Speaker 1: for a while and hopefully never again. With all the
Speaker 1: recent news about illegitimate president of Venezuela Maduro and his
Speaker 1: wife being removed from their home, being arrested, being brought
Speaker 1: to the United States by the US military, I thought
Speaker 1: it might be a good idea to look up and
Speaker 1: see what exactly it takes to get an amateur radio
Speaker 1: license in Venezuela. I have worked Venezuela many times on DX,
Speaker 1: and when I was in Costa Rica was easy to
Speaker 1: get Venezuela. But if the ten fifteen meter bands are
Speaker 1: open on PODA, I usually will go to PODA and
Speaker 1: I will work South American stations many times, and I've
Speaker 1: got several Venezuelan contacts in my logbook. You can recognize
Speaker 1: Venezuelan call signs because they start with Yankee Victor or
Speaker 1: sometimes Yankee Yankee, So go out there and look for those.
Speaker 1: If you're in the USA or Canada, North America, looking
Speaker 1: for those rare and let's talk to those folks in
Speaker 1: Venezuela that might be able to turn on their radios
Speaker 1: without fear of arrest for the first time in a while.
Speaker 1: HAM radio amateur radio license in Venezuela is regulated by CONNATEL,
Speaker 1: which is the commission the national telecommunications authority. The Radio
Speaker 1: Club Venezulano, which is referred to as RCV as the
Speaker 1: country's IRU member society, and it assists with exams and
Speaker 1: applications in community support. But the final licenses are issued
Speaker 1: by CONNTEL under Maduro and his regime, and he was
Speaker 1: captured in early January of twenty twenty six. Licensing face challenges,
Speaker 1: bureaucratic delays, political scrutiny due to regime censorship of communications.
Speaker 1: We did a video earlier about him blocking social media
Speaker 1: and blocking the Internet and only allowing news media sources
Speaker 1: come through that he approved of. Okay, So a decentralized
Speaker 1: type of communications like two A radio of any kind
Speaker 1: cbe radio gmrs, which they don't have gmrs down there,
Speaker 1: but they have four hundred and sixty megahertz. So something
Speaker 1: inside the amateur radio spectrum, something adjacent to or next
Speaker 1: to the amateur radio spectrum. Decentralized because you don't need
Speaker 1: any infrastructure to make it work. You can talk radio
Speaker 1: to radio all day long. So political scrutiny due to
Speaker 1: their censorships restrictions amid Internet blackouts and media shutdowns contel
Speaker 1: offered prioritize control over broadcasting in telecom indirectly affect the
Speaker 1: amateur radio. Venezuela is in a transitional phase right now.
Speaker 1: Following Maduro's arrest, an interim government has been sworn in
Speaker 1: asserting independence while the US exerts influence and international debates
Speaker 1: like the UN Council continue. Moduro has pleaded not guilty
Speaker 1: in a US courts. Specific impacts on ham radio licensing
Speaker 1: remain unclear and undeveloped amid the immediate aftermath, but several
Speaker 1: scenarios are possible. I'm just kind of shooting out loud,
Speaker 1: kind of just guessing what. Here's what we can do.
Speaker 1: Take advantage of whatever. You can. Go buy radio, get
Speaker 1: on the radio. If you've been scared to do it,
Speaker 1: go get your license. If you've been restricted from doing that,
Speaker 1: go do it. Now is the time. Take advantage while
Speaker 1: you can. Amateur radio provides long term liberalization, more democratic
Speaker 1: and reform oriented government could streamline licensing, reduce bureaucracy, and
Speaker 1: align closer with international standards that are upheld and supported
Speaker 1: by the IAARU, the International Amateur Radio Union, and also
Speaker 1: the International Telecommunications Union. This might encourage growth in amateur
Speaker 1: radio for emergency communications, education and hobby use, especially after
Speaker 1: years of repression, an increased role for the RCV. The
Speaker 1: Radio Club Venozolano could gain more autonomy or partnership in
Speaker 1: the licensing process. If telecom regulations are reformed, emergency communications
Speaker 1: could become boosted, and HAM radio's role in disasters and
Speaker 1: off grid networks might expand, potentially leading to supportive policies,
Speaker 1: fastered licensing and volunteers. More people volunteering in the amateur
Speaker 1: radio exam process. We have voluntary exam coordinators here in
Speaker 1: the USA, and it might lead to more people being
Speaker 1: volunteering in that country in Venezuela and getting on the air,
Speaker 1: getting more people licensed, getting more people interested in getting
Speaker 1: on the air. That way, if such a thing should
Speaker 1: ever happen in or we don't know where the government's
Speaker 1: going to go right now. If you've got more people
Speaker 1: licensed and more people on the air, more people that
Speaker 1: own radios, you're going to increase the chances of communication
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Speaker 1: I wanted to read more about RCV and see what
Speaker 1: kind of actions they're taking, but there's been no public
Speaker 1: reports yet about anything they're doing. No direct changes to RCV,
Speaker 1: no direct changes to amateur radio licensing, no direct changes
Speaker 1: to the amateur radio effort inside the country of Venezuela.
Speaker 1: At this time, I want to monitor updates from the RCV,
Speaker 1: from the IARU, the new government that's put themselves in play,
Speaker 1: that has asserted independence. It was put in the news
Speaker 1: story that I read. So if you're in Venezuela or
Speaker 1: planning operations there, check with local hams via international networks
Speaker 1: or on the ground inside. So most HAM radio operators
Speaker 1: are famous for forming clubs. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: clubs here in the USA. I know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of clubs in Europe. There's a lot of clubs in Canada,
Speaker 1: there's clubs in Australia. I assume that there's probably some
Speaker 1: sort of HAM radio club, or maybe there used to
Speaker 1: be a HAM radio club in Venezuela and they kind
Speaker 1: of got squelched and disbanded during this whole Maduro regime.
Speaker 1: Now's the time to go form an amateur radio club.
Speaker 1: Get with some other fellow amateur radio operators. Form a club,
Speaker 1: put it together, contact the RCV, get affiliated with them,
Speaker 1: work together to get amateur radio up and going more often,
Speaker 1: more consistently, more regularly inside the country of Venezuela. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you guys have some breathing room down there now.
Speaker 1: If you're in Venezuela, I hope everything works out well.
Speaker 1: I hope this is a good move for you. If
Speaker 1: you're in Venezuela, I really would love to hear from you.
Speaker 1: Put a comet in this video below, let me know
Speaker 1: how things are down there. If you're outside of Venezuela,
Speaker 1: if you're in the USA. Most of the viewers on
Speaker 1: this channel are in the USA or maybe Canada. Okay,
Speaker 1: listen for those Yankee Victor or Yankee Yankee stations. If
Speaker 1: you're out on PODA, if you see an opening on
Speaker 1: the ten, you can get DX on twenty meters. My
Speaker 1: personal experience is that DX is more common and easier
Speaker 1: on ten and fifteen and seventeen meters. Okay, but if
Speaker 1: you're on twenty meters, listen for those Yankee Yankee and
Speaker 1: Yankee Victor calls. Go out there and make a special
Speaker 1: effort to contact those guys. Get them in your log book,
Speaker 1: chat with him about how things are going, and wish
Speaker 1: them well. Seventy three guys, thank you for watching today.
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