Conditions of Use
Purpose
(1) The Licensee shall use the Station for the purpose of self-training in communication by wireless telegraphy, which use (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) includes technical investigations.
(2) The Licensee may use or permit the use of the Station, as part of his self-training in communication by wireless telegraphy, during any operation conducted by a User Service [defined in sub-clause 12(1) (o)] or during any exercise relating to such an operation for the purpose of sending Messages on behalf of the User Service to other licensed amateur stations.
(3) Notwithstanding sub-clauses 1(1) and 1(4) (a) of this Licence and subject to the limitations in paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 of Resolution 640 of the Radio Regulations of the International Telecommunication Union, the Licensee may use the following frequency bands to meet the needs of international disaster communications: 3.5 MHz to 3.8 MHz, 7.0 MHz to 7.1 MHz,10.10 MHz to 10.15 MHz,14.00 MHz to 14.35 MHz, 18.068 MHz to 18.168 MHz, 21.00 MHz to 21.45 MHz, 24.89 MHz to 24.99 MHz and 144 MHz to 146 MHz.
Messages
(4) The Licensee shall address Messages only to other licensed amateurs or the stations of licensed amateurs and shall send only: (a) Messages relating to technical investigations or remarks of a personal character; or (b) Signals (not encyphered) which form part of, or relate to, the transmission of Messages.
(5) 'Messages' and 'Signals' include communication by: (a) telephony; (b) morse telegraphy; (c) visual communications (which include slow scan television (SSN), fast scan television (FSN) and facsimile); and (d) digital communications (which include data, radio teletype (RTTY) and amateur teleprinting over radio (AMTOR)).
1. (6) The Licensee may use codes and abbreviations for communications as long as they do not obscure the meaning of, but only facilitate, the communications.
(7) The Licensee may send Messages to individual amateurs but shall not send Messages (whether directly or for onwards transmission by another station) for general reception by licensed amateurs other than: (a) initial calls; or (b) to groups of licensed amateurs as long as communication is first established separately with at least one licensed amateur in any such group; or
(c) to licensed amateurs who participate within a net and subject to the identification requirements provided for in sub-clause 7 (1A) below; or (d) messages transmitted via a mailbox or bulletin board for reception by all or any licensed amateurs who have the facility to transmit and receive RTN or Data Transmissions.
(8) If this Licence is held on behalf of a club and having regard to sub-clauses 2(10) and 3(3), greetings messages may be sent by non-licensed persons provided that: (a) it is under the direct supervision of the Licensee or other Authorised Club Member (who must operate the transmitter and identify the station); and (b) each greetings message does not exceed two minutes; and (c) each person may send only one such message to each station with which the station is in contact; and (d) greetings messages may be sent and received only within the United Kingdom or to and from stations in the United States of America, Canada, falkland Islands and Pitcairn Island.
(9) The Licensee shall not transmit such material as music, public broadcasts or speeches.
Location
(10) "Station" means the station of the Licensee at the Main Station Address, a Temporary Location or while Mobile or Maritime Mobile, as the case may be.
(11) Subject to clause 11, the Licensee shall operate the Station only:
(a) at the Main 5tation Address ("Main Station Address" means the main station address of the Licensee set forth in paragraph (d) of the Validation Document); (b) at a Temporary Location ("Temporary Location" means a location, other than the Main Station Address, in the United Kingdom, and in a fixed position); (c) while Mobile ("Mobile" means located in the United Kingdom in any vehicle, as a pedestrian or on any Vessel in Inland Waters); or
(d) while Maritime Mobile ("Maritime Mobile" means located on any Vessel At Sea).
(12) The Licensee shall give prior written notice to the 5ecretary of 5tate at the address specified in note (a) to this Booklet of any change in the Main Station Address (or mailing address, if different).
Standard Frequency Service
(13) The Licensee may use the Station for the reception of transmissions in the Standard Frequency Service (a radio communication service for scientific, technical and other purposes, providing the transmission of specific frequencies of stated high precision, intended for general reception).
Limitations on Use
2. (1) Subject to other, more specific, terms in this Licence, the Licensee shall only use: (a) the frequency bands specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Licence subject to the limitations set out in the second and third columns of the Schedule; (b) a power relating to such frequency bands not exceeding the maximum specified in the fourth column of the Schedule; and (c) the types of transmission specified in the fifth column of the Schedule.
2. (2) If the Licence is an Amateur Radio Licence (B), then the Licensee: (a) shall transmit only in the frequency bands above 3OMHz specified in the first column of the 5chedule; (b) may receive Messages on the frequency band not specified in the first column of the Schedule as long as he transmits only in the bands above 30 MHz specified in the first column of the Schedule.
2. (3) The Licensee may receive Messages from an overseas amateur on a frequency band not specified in the first column of the 5chedule as long as the Licensee transmits only in a band specified in the first column of the Schedule which is authorised under sub-clause 2(1) or (2).
Unattended Operation
2. (4) Subject to sub-clause 2(5), the Licensee may conduct the Unattended Operations ('Unattended Operation' means the operation of the Station which is unattended by the Licensee) only: (a) of a beacon: (i) in the frequency bands or sub-bands: 7OMHz to 70.5 MHz 1298 MHz to 1299 MHz (not in Northern Ireland) 2310 MHz to 2450 MHz 3400 MHz to 3475 MHz 5650 MHz to 5680 MHz 5755 MHz to 5765 MHz 5820 MHz to 5850 MHz 10000 MHz to 10250 MHz 10270 MHz to 10300 MHz 10400 MHz to 10500 MHz 24000 MHz to 24050 MHz and all bands including and above 47000 MHz, with a maximum power level of 14 dBW erp pep, or
(ü) for the purpose of direction finding competitions, on 1.96 MHz with a bandwidth not exceeding 12'/= kHz and in the frequency bands:
3.SMHz to 3.8 MHz
(only between 00.00 hrs Saturday to 00.00 hrs Monday)
28.0 MHz to 29.7 MHz; or
144 MHz to 146 MHz,
with a maximum power level of 14 dBW erp pep
which is capable of transmitting the call sign of the Licensee periodically (in accordance with clause 7) and capable of being switched off within two hours of a demand to close down given by a person authorised by the 5ecretary of State; (b) of a low power device to control apparatus at the Main Station Address or a Temporary Location by remote control, in the frequency bands or sub-bands:
70 MHz to 70.5 MHz 432.5 MHz to 432.6 MHz 1298 MHz to 1299 MHz (not in Northern Ireland) 2310 MHz to 2450 MHz 3400 MHz to 3475 MHz 5650 MHz to 5680 MHz 5755 MHz to 5765 MHz 5820 MHz to 5850 MHz 10000 Mhz to 10250 MHz 10270 MHz to 10300 MHz 10400 MHz to 10500 MHz 24000 MHz to 24050 MHz
and all bands including and above 47000 MHz, specified in the first column of the Schedule, with a maximum power level of -20 dBW erp pep, under all reasonably foreseeable operational conditions, in such a way that no electromagnetic energy capable of reception by any station or apparatus outside the boundary of the premises in which the Station is situated is emitted from the
Station; or (c) by digital communications at the Main 5tation Address or at a Temporary Location: (i) in the frequency band: SOMHz to 51 MHz
with a maximum power level of 10 dBW erp pep, or (ü) on the spot frequencies 70.3125 MHz 703250 MHz 70.4875 MHz with a bandwidth not exceeding 25 kHz; or