New Zealand Gazette – 2012 – No. 147

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✨ Amateur Radio Regulations



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 147

6 DECEMBER 2012

(3) Operation on amateur bands between 5 MHz and 25 MHz is not permitted unless a person has held a General Amateur Operators Certificate of Competency for three months and logged 50 contacts during this period. The person must keep the logbook record for at least one year and, during this period, produce it at the request of the chief executive.

  1. Terms, conditions and restrictions applying to visiting amateur operators—(1) Persons visiting New Zealand who hold a current amateur certificate of competency, authorisation or licence issued by another administration, may operate an amateur station in New Zealand for a period not exceeding 90 days, provided the certificate, authorisation or licence meets the requirements of Recommendation ITU-R M.1544 or CEPT T/R 61-01 or CEPT T/R 61-02 and is produced at the request of the chief executive.

(2) The visiting overseas operator must use the national callsign allocated by the other administration to the operator, in conjunction with the prefix or suffix “ZL” which is to be separated from the national callsign by the character “/” (telegraphy), or the word “stroke” (telephony).

  1. Terms, conditions and restrictions applying to all amateur operators—(1) The use of callsigns, including temporary and club callsigns, must be in accordance with publication PIB 46 “Radio Operator Certificate and Callsign Rules” published at www.rsm.govt.nz.

(2) Callsigns must be transmitted at least once every 15 minutes during communications.

(3) National and international communication is permitted only between amateur stations, and is limited to matters of a personal nature, or for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication and radio technology investigation, solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest. The passing of brief messages of a personal nature on behalf of other persons is also permitted, provided no fees or other consideration is requested or accepted.

(4) Communications must not be encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except for control signals by the operators of remotely controlled amateur stations.

(5) Except as provided to the contrary in this notice, transmitter power output must not exceed 1000 watts peak envelope power (pX), as defined in ITU Radio Regulation 1.157.

(6) Amateur stations must, as far as is compatible with practical considerations, comply with the latest ITU-R recommendations to the extent applicable to the amateur service.

(7) In accordance with Article 25 of the International Radio Regulations, amateur operators are encouraged to prepare for, and meet, communication needs in support of disaster relief.

(8) Amateur beacons, repeaters and fixed links may not be established pursuant to this licence.

(9) Unwanted emissions outside the frequency bands specified in this schedule must comply with the requirements of technical standard ETSI ETS 300 684 published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).

(10) This general user radio licence applies only to transmissions within the frequency ranges set out in the Schedule to this licence. All such transmissions must be made in accordance with the notes for the frequency range in which that transmission take place and in accordance with the other conditions set out in this licence.

  1. Consequential revocation of licences—The Radiocommunication Regulations (General User Radio Licence for Amateur Radio Operators) Notice 2011 dated the 9th day of November 2011 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 17 November 2011, No. 176, page 5040, is revoked.

Schedule

Frequency Range Notes
130 to 190 kHz 2, 4, 6
472 to 479 kHz 2, 7
505 to 515 kHz 2, 4, 7, 8, 9
1.80 to 1.95 MHz 2
3.50 to 3.90 MHz 2
7.00 to 7.10 MHz 1
7.10 to 7.20 MHz
7.20 to 7.30 MHz 2
10.10 to 10.15 MHz 2
14.00 to 14.35 MHz 1
18.068 to 18.168 MHz 1
21.00 to 21.45 MHz 1
24.89 to 24.99 MHz 1
26.95 to 27.30 MHz 2, 3, 5, 6
28.00 to 29.70 MHz 1
51.00 to 53.00 MHz 2
144.00 to 146.00 MHz 1
146.00 to 148.00 MHz 2
430.00 to 440.00 MHz 1, 2, 3
921.00 to 928.00 MHz 3, 7
1.24 to 1.30 GHz 1, 2
2.396 to 2.45 GHz 1, 3
3.30 to 3.41 GHz 1, 2
5.65 to 5.85 GHz 1, 3
10.00 to 10.50 GHz 1, 2
24.00 to 24.05 GHz 1, 3
24.05 to 24.25 GHz 3
47.00 to 47.20 GHz 1
75.50 to 76.00 GHz 1, 2
76.00 to 81.00 GHz 1, 2
122.25 to 123.00 GHz 2, 3
134.00 to 136.00 GHz 1
136.00 to 141.00 GHz 1, 2
241.00 to 248.00 GHz 1, 2, 3
248.00 to 250.00 GHz 1
275.00 to 1000 GHz 2, 4

Notes to Schedule

  1. The following ranges of frequencies may also be used for amateur satellite communications:

    • 7.00 to 7.10 MHz
    • 14.00 to 14.25 MHz
    • 18.068 to 18.168 MHz
    • 21.00 to 21.45 MHz
    • 24.89 to 24.99 MHz
    • 28.00 to 29.70 MHz
    • 144.00 to 146.00 MHz
    • 435.00 to 438.00 MHz
    • 1.26 to 1.27 GHz (a)
    • 2.40 to 2.45 GHz
    • 3.40 to 3.41 GHz
    • 5.65 to 5.67 GHz (a)
    • 5.83 to 5.85 GHz (b)
    • 10.45 to 10.50 GHz
    • 24.00 to 24.05 GHz
    • 47.00 to 47.20 GHz
    • 75.50 to 81.00 GHz
    • 134.00 to 141.00 GHz
    • 241.00 to 250.00 GHz

    (a) Limited to the earth-to-space direction.
    (b) Limited to the space-to-earth direction.



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