NZART Amateur Examination                     page 1          NZARTX07 Security code 264678
- 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
- A New Zealand General Amateur Operator Certificate of
Competency
allows you to operate:
- anywhere in the world
- anywhere in New Zealand and in any other country that
recognises the Certificate
- within 50 km of your home station location
- only at your home address
- If you contact another station and your signal is strong
and perfectly
readable, you should:
- turn on your speech processor
- reduce your SWR
- not make any changes, otherwise you may lose contact
- reduce your transmitter power output to the minimum
needed to maintain contact
- These letters are generally used for the first letters in
New Zealand amateur
radio callsigns:
- ZS
- ZL
- VK
- LZ
- General Amateur Operator Certificates of Competency
and callsigns are
issued pursuant to the Regulations by the:
- New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART)
- Ministry of Economic Development Approved Radio
Examiners
- Department of Internal Affairs
- Prime Minister's Office
- The Morse code signal SOS is sent by a station:
- with an urgent message
- in grave and imminent danger and requiring immediate
assistance
- making a report about a shipping hazard
- sending important weather information
- Bandplans showing the transmission modes for New
Zealand amateur radio
bands are developed and published for the mutual respect
and advantage of all
operators:
- to ensure that your operations do not impose problems on
other operators and that
their operations do not impact on you
- to keep experimental developments contained
- to reduce the number of modes in any one band
- to keep overseas stations separate from local stations
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