Dan Jacobson wrote in
:

How many countries have two kinds of licences: operator's licence and
station licence? You only get your callsign (station licence) after
you bring your rig in for inspection, whereupon you are granted a
callsign whose letter reflect the level of operator's licence you have
achieved. Taiwan is one.

This seems like a commercial radio concept dragged over into ham radio.
One would think one equipment approval would be enough too, as all
rigs on the market already have local FCC approval.


This is the system in Spain, although they only have to write a description
of their station to get the station licence (and, of course, pay an
additional fee!).

US military enclaves (Guanatanamo, etc, can't remember all of them right
now) all have the same system.

One advantage in both of those systems is that a licence issued anywhere in
the world is accepted as the operator's licence. Other than that, it does
seem terribly redundant.