NZART Amateur Examination                     page 1          NZARTX07 Security code 261426
- The administration of the Amateur Service in New
Zealand is by:
- the Ministry of Economic Development Radio Spectrum
Management Group
- the Area Code administrators of New Zealand Post
- the Radio Communications Division of the Ministry of
Police
- your local council public relations section
- An applicant for a New Zealand General Amateur
Operator Certificate of
Competency must first qualify by meeting the appropriate
examination
requirements. Application may then be made by:
- anyone except a representative of a foreign government
- only a citizen of New Zealand
- anyone except an employee of the Ministry of Economic
Development
- anyone
- An amateur station must have a qualified operator:
- only when training another amateur
- whenever the station receiver is operated
- whenever the station is used for transmitting
- when transmitting and receiving
- Before re-issuing, a relinquished callsign is normally kept
for:
- 1 year
- 2 years
- 0 years
- 5 years
- A General Amateur Operator Certificate of Competency:
- expires after 6 months
- contains the unique callsign(s) to be used by that
operator
- is transferable
- permits the transmission of radio waves
- As a New Zealand amateur radio operator you may
communicate with:
- only amateur stations within New Zealand
- only stations running more than 500w PEP output
- only stations using the same transmission mode
- other amateur stations world-wide
- An amateur radio operator must be able to:
- converse in the languages shown on the Certificate of
Competency
- read Morse code at 12 words-per-minute
- monitor standard frequency transmissions
- verify that transmissions are within an authorised
frequency band
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