✨ Radio Telegraph Regulations
- The scheme of allocation of call signals shall be :-
(a.) For a broadcasting station, the number of the radio district in
which the station is situated followed by the letter Y and one
or more identification letters—e.g., 1YA, 3YKG.
(b.) For an amateur station, the number of the radio district in which
the station is situated followed by two or more identification
letters—e.g., 1AA, 4BOM.
(c.) For an experimental station, the number of the radio district in
which the station is situated followed by the letter X and one
or more identification letters—e.g., 2XAB, 3XTU. - Any licensee or operator who impersonates any other licensee or
operator, or who improperly uses the call signal of another radio station,
commits an offence against these regulations.
DECLARATION OF SECRECY.
- Every licensee (other than an association or corporation) and every
operator shall execute a declaration of secrecy to the effect that he will
not divulge to any unauthorized person any information whatsoever relating
to public correspondence that may come to his knowledge; and that he
will, by every means in his power, seek to preserve the secrecy of the same.
Such licensee or operator shall not commit to writing any public corre-
spondence that may come to his knowledge while exercising the powers
conferred upon him by the license. In the case of societies, institutes, and
similar bodies, all members of the body having access to the apparatus
shall execute the declaration of secrecy, and special care shall be taken
to ensure that all the conditions of the license, particularly those relating
to secrecy of public correspondence, are strictly observed.
CONTROL OF RADIO STATION IN EMERGENCY.
- If and whenever an emergency shall have arisen in which it is
expedient in the public interest that His Majesty’s Government shall have
control over the transmission of radio communications by the licensed
apparatus, it shall be lawful for any officer of His Majesty’s Navy or
Army, or for any other person authorized in that behalf by the Admiralty
or by the Minister, to take possession of, or to dismantle, or to cause the
licensed apparatus or any part thereof to be taken possession of or to be
dismantled in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, and to be used where
such use may be deemed necessary for His Majesty’s service, and, subject
thereto, for such ordinary services as the said officer or person may deem fit;
and in that event any person authorized by the said officer or person may
enter any radio station in which any such apparatus is installed and take
possession of or dismantle the said apparatus and use the same as aforesaid.
INSPECTION DURING CURRENCY OF LICENSE.
- The radio station must be open to inspection at all times by a District
Radio Inspector, and every reasonable facility given for ascertaining the
condition of the station and whether the regulations are being strictly
complied with. - The license of the radio station and the operator’s certificate shall
at all times be exhibited in a prominent place at the radio station.
NATURE OF RADIO COMMUNICATIONS.
- A radio station licensed under these regulations shall not be used
in any way to compete with Government communication services, and shall
not transmit or receive radio communications the transmission or reception
of which is calculated, in the judgment of the Minister, to cause a loss of
revenue to the Post and Telegraph Department. - The licensee or the operator shall not transmit any radio com-
munication of a seditious, profane, obscene, libellous, or offensive nature. - The licensee or the operator shall not transmit any radio com-
munication of a false or misleading character, and, in particular, shall not
transmit any false S.O.S. signal.
TRANSMITTING STATIONS TO BE EQUIPPED FOR RECEPTION.
- An amateur, experimental, or broadcasting station shall be equipped
for reception as well as for transmission, and shall observe the prescribed
conditions relating to the keeping of a watch for the interference warning
signal, AAAAQRM; provided that this requirement may be waived by
the Minister in the case of a broadcasting station communication with
which can be conveniently obtained by an adjacent coast station by means
of a Government telephone-exchange connection.
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Radio Telegraph Regulations for Amateur, Experimental, and Broadcasting Stations
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🚂 Transport & Communications17 January 1923
Radio Telegraph, Regulations, Licensing, Amateur Stations, Experimental Stations, Broadcasting Stations, Fees, Wave Classification, Damped Waves, Call Signals
NZ Gazette 1923, No 5