Cost of getting a UK license

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Cost of getting a UK license

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What is the cost of getting a license in the UK, particularly, sitting the exam(s) and license fee?

Looking at how the cost is shaking out for those Downunder to get a license.

Currently to get a Standard grade license here it is $215 Oz dollars - $90 each for the Regulations and Theory exams and $35 application fee to have a callsign allocated.

Then $75 or so for the first years license fee on top of the above (goes down for subsequent years).
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Re: Cost of getting a UK license

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Hi Terry
Foundation £27.50
Intermediate £32.50
Advanced £37.50
No annual fee to hold them they did away with that which was not a good idea as we get no protection, and each ticket has to be validated every 5 years.
Link here mate
https://rsgb.org/main/clubs-training/fo ... your-exam/
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Re: Cost of getting a UK license

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Thanks Mark.

As I have mentioned before, even though we pay license fee's, protection for the amateur service is mostly nonexistent here anyway (it's a "go away and sort yourself" attitude these days).
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Re: Cost of getting a UK license

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Ha sounds like Ofcom here Terry.......We all want to pay but the fools say it will cost more to collect :?
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