NZART Amateur Examination                     page 1          NZARTX07 Security code 267036
  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. An Amateur Station is one which is:
    1. operated by the holder of a General Amateur Operator Certificate of Competency on the amateur radio bands
    2. owned and operated by a person who is not engaged professionally in radio communications
    3. used exclusively to provide two-way communication in connection with activities of amateur sporting organisations
    4. used primarily for emergency communications during floods, earthquakes and similar disasters.

  3. An amateur station must have a qualified operator:
    1. only when training another amateur
    2. whenever the station receiver is operated
    3. whenever the station is used for transmitting
    4. when transmitting and receiving

  4. This callsign could be allocated to an amateur radio operator in New Zealand:
    1. ZK-CKF
    2. ZLC5
    3. ZL2HF
    4. ZMX4432

  5. A General Amateur Operator Certificate of Competency holder must advise permanent changes to postal and email addresses and update the official database records within:
    1. 7 days
    2. one calendar month
    3. 10 days
    4. one year

  6. Morse code is permitted for use by:
    1. only operators who have passed a Morse code test
    2. those stations with computers to decode it
    3. any amateur radio operator
    4. only those stations equipped for headphone reception

  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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