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