11 JUNE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

required by law to fit or use marine radiocommunications equipment.

4. Application—This licence applies only to apparatus within the territorial limits of New Zealand.

5. Terms, conditions and restrictions—(1) This licence is subject to the technical and operational conditions specified in the First Schedule.

(2) The apparatus to which this licence applies are restricted to operating within the frequencies specified in the Second Schedule.

6. Consequential revocation of licences—Any ship station licences issued under the Radio Regulations 1970 in respect of any voluntary equipped ship and licences issued under the Radio Regulations 1987 for maritime mobile (ship) radio apparatus for voluntary equipped ships and which remained in force as at 1 January 1998 in accordance with regulation 55 of the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations 1993 and regulation 45 of the Radio Regulations 1987 are revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 8th day of June 1998.

KATHARINE J. MOODY, Manager - Radio Spectrum Management.

First Schedule

Technical and Operational Conditions

Clause 5 (1)

1. The following technical and operational conditions apply in respect of maritime VHF radio transmitting equipment:

(a) All transmissions made from a vessel must be properly identified. In the VHF band the following callsign and identification procedures must be used:

(i) Callsigns Where already available, the existing callsigns from the ZMV/ZMR/ZMZ/ZMP series must continue to be used in conjunction with the current name of the vessel; for new vessels, the Royal New Zealand Coastguard will issue callsigns from the series ZMW, ZMY for ships, and the series ZMQ for portable units;

(ii) Maritime mobile service identities (MMSI) When equipment with DSC capability is installed and otherwise complies with the provisions of this licence a MMSI must be obtained from the Ministry of Commerce and be programmed into the equipment;

(iii) Other identification aspects Where the provisions of (i) do not apply operators must use the vessel’s name, registration number if available, or their own certificate number;

(b) Unless otherwise provided for under this licence, the general radio procedures and other guidelines listed in publication [PIB 7 Rev. Small Ships Radiotelephone Service] must be followed;

(c) The designation of emission for the apparatus is 16K0F3EJN; and

(d) The VHF channels specified in Appendix S18 of the International Radio Regulations within the frequency band 156 MHz to 174 MHz must be used in accordance with the following use designations:

2. Radionavigation equipment must meet the following technical requirements:

• Peak power: 10 kW
• PRF: 375–3600 Hz
• Antenna B/W: 3 dB 6.2°H, 30°V
• Antenna gain: 27 dB
• Nominal frequency range: 9410–9445 MHz ±30

Second Schedule

Apparatus restricted to specified frequencies

Clause 5 (2)

1. Maritime VHF radio transmitting equipment is restricted to operating within the frequencies specified in Appendix S18 of the International Radio Regulations but is not authorised to operate in the interleaved channels at 12.5 kHz spacing.

2. Radionavigation equipment is restricted to operating within the frequencies between 9.3 and 9.5 GHz.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice prescribes that, pursuant to regulation 13 of the Radiocommunication (Radio) Regulations 1993, a general licence is granted in respect of the installation, operation, and use of radio apparatus on frequencies specified in this notice. Provided that the terms and conditions of the notice are met, no further licence is required and no fee is payable for use of such complying apparatus.

The licence only applies to apparatus which complies with the technical specifications for such apparatus. Use and operation of the apparatus is restricted to persons who have been granted an operator qualification and applies to apparatus only while it is within the territorial limits of New Zealand.