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Introduction to Radio Licence Accounts

All of the information in our ALS database associated with your Web profile, including accounts, licensing, frequency, invoicing, and administrative information, is available for browsing using the links in the Account Information section of the main menu. (Land and mobile stations are browsed separately because each has quite different information in our database.)

  • The Land Station Browser provides access to your accounts and your licences for land stations, which include land, coast, and earth station types.
  • The Mobile Station Browser provides access to your accounts and your licences for mobile stations.
  • The Invoice Browser provides access to your accounts and all of your past invoices.

Information on certain less common licence types (ship, aircraft, and space stations) are not yet available on our web site. If you require this information, please contact your district office.

In each Browser, you can either browse hierarchically through your information (moving from accounts to licences or invoices, and frequencies), or you can search your information for specific licences, frequencies, or invoices. You do not have access to information on accounts that are not part of your Web profile.

Because you have access to detailed technical and financial information related to your account, you must log in using a Web Profile to access the Browsers.

For your active, paid stations, we now provide a link to your virtual licence. Your virtual licence is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file that replaces printed licence renewals.

Land Station Browser

The information related to your land stations is organized as shown below. The information includes any passive repeaters (or reflectors) used on your system, and link stations in a point-to-point system.

             Your Account
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                Stations
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          Passive  |  Licence
        Repeaters  |  Conditions
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              Frequencies
               |       |
             Link     Frequency
         Stations     Conditions

Mobile Station Browser

The information related to your mobile stations is organized as shown below. The information includes linked land stations.

             Your Account
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                Stations
                   |   |
                   |  Licence
                   |  Conditions
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              Frequencies
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               Frequency
               Conditions

Invoice Browser

The information related to your invoices is organized as shown below.

             Your Account
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               Invoices
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        Invoice Items (Stations)