The Hong Kong Radio Control Soaring Society

Renewal of OFTA license
Date: 18 July 2004

Dear HKRCSS Members,

Some of you got the OFTA license for model aircraft flying and 22 of these licenses will be expired by 31 July 2004. I have recently received the renewal notice of these 22 licenses from OFTA. In order to speed up the renewal process, HKRCSS has decided to renew the licenses for these members provided that they have also renewed their HKRCSS membership (up to date information: 19 out of 22 have already renewed their HKRCSS membership). The club will pay the $80 renewal fee for these members first and then later these members will reimburse the club with this money. The list of these members concerned is follow:

Name                             HKRCSS #       License No:

Yan Wing Hung               0075                DT1002

Tai Lun, Paul                   0094                DT1003

Chan Cheung Fat             0034                DT1004

Leung Chi Keung             0046                DT1005

Chan Kin Sang, Tony       0069                DT1006

Leung Wing Wun             0029                DT1008

Tai Yip Chung                  0033                DT1009

Choi Yiu Keung               0041                DT1010

Lo Po Chung                   0015                 DT1011

So Kwok Ying                 0057                DT1012

Lui Ying Chun                  0073               DT1013

Lee Chun Ming, Angus     0092               DT1015

Kong Fuk Yip                  0086                DT1017

Lou Tsz Ming                   0043               DT1018

Chung Yuen Lun, Charles  0074              DT1019

Ma Chor Ming                 0076               DT1020

Mak Kai Yeung                0054               DT1021

Chan Wai Chun                0027               DT1022

Peter Michael Law           0090                DT1024

Since the renewal of OFTA license every year individually is quite tedious, we are proposing that the $80 license fee will be incorporated into the membership fee next year so that the club can automatically renew the licenses for you in batch to save time and this will be advantageous for those who are too busy to renew their licenses. We will propose the change in the coming AGM and if the resolution is passed the membership fee will be increased to $230 to cover the license fee cost.

Anyway, for the time being we will proceed to renew OFTA licenses for these 19 members first.

You probably know that there was an unfortunate incident last Wednesday. Two r/c pilots flying their gliders in Fei Ngo Shan were arrested by police at the request of OFTA staff. They were charged with the use of illegal frequencies. HKRCSS will try our best to help the two pilots concerned. We realized that there are severely shortage of legal r/c channels for flying our models and we will be continuing to press OFTA to release more r/c bands. In the mean time, we will encourage our members to use legal frequencies.