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  1. The administration of the Amateur Service in New Zealand is by:
    1. the Ministry of Economic Development Radio Spectrum Management Group
    2. the Area Code administrators of New Zealand Post
    3. the Radio Communications Division of the Ministry of Police
    4. your local council public relations section

  2. A New Zealand General Amateur Operator Certificate of Competency allows you to operate:
    1. anywhere in the world
    2. anywhere in New Zealand and in any other country that recognises the Certificate
    3. within 50 km of your home station location
    4. only at your home address

  3. If you contact another station and your signal is strong and perfectly readable, you should:
    1. turn on your speech processor
    2. reduce your SWR
    3. not make any changes, otherwise you may lose contact
    4. reduce your transmitter power output to the minimum needed to maintain contact

  4. These letters are generally used for the first letters in New Zealand amateur radio callsigns:
    1. ZS
    2. ZL
    3. VK
    4. LZ

  5. General Amateur Operator Certificates of Competency and callsigns are issued pursuant to the Regulations by the:
    1. New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART)
    2. Ministry of Economic Development Approved Radio Examiners
    3. Department of Internal Affairs
    4. Prime Minister's Office

  6. The Morse code signal SOS is sent by a station:
    1. with an urgent message
    2. in grave and imminent danger and requiring immediate assistance
    3. making a report about a shipping hazard
    4. sending important weather information

  7. Bandplans showing the transmission modes for New Zealand amateur radio bands are developed and published for the mutual respect and advantage of all operators:
    1. to ensure that your operations do not impose problems on other operators and that their operations do not impact on you
    2. to keep experimental developments contained
    3. to reduce the number of modes in any one band
    4. to keep overseas stations separate from local stations
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