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Philippine Amateur Radio Regulations

In this page 4F1RWW provides all interested person with some information about the Philippine
licencing system. This page should serve foreignen HAM´s to be aware of Philippine Amateur
Radio Regulation. For comments please feal free to address them to 4F1RWW direct.
If you see some errors or mistakes please inform me about this, nobody is perfect.

73 de Klaus   4F1RWW

Amateur Radio Band allocation for the Phillippines

Licencing information for Foreignen HAM´s

Philippine Amateur Call Sign

Local Amateur Radio Operators

List of National Telecommunication Commission offices in the Philippines    (comming soon)

Temporary Permit    DU1/....
Foreignen HAM´s visiting the Philippines
For amateurs holding a valid License of a country that has a reciprocal agreement with the Philippines, it is not difficult to obtain a temporary permit. This permit is valid for 1 year and renewable every year. The fastest way to obtain a License is to go in person to the local NTC (National Telecommunication Commission) and bring an application form and a form for the permit of owning amateur radio equipment. You have to specify the Type and Serial Number of all your Radio Equipment, since this must be Licensed too. New is that you have to present a custom clearance paper indicating that you have properly imported the equipment and that you paid all taxes and duties. The Form for the owner ship of the Amateur Radio Equipment must be notarized. This could be done by any local public notary in the Philippines. (Remind that this is not a custom clearance, for the custom this is a different matter.)
Furthermore please note, no permit for equipment, no license. The best is to official use the station of a local HAM, but you need also a permit in doing so, also the inviting HAM needs the permit of the NTC before an other Amateur could use his station..
Note also, to transport your equipment within the Philippines you need to have a Permit to Transfer from the NTC otherwise it might be possible that your equipment will be confiscated by the local authorities. Further more you need two 1*1 (2.5cm*2.5cm) pictures, a copy of the valid national license, a letter of good moral and character, which could be issued from the employer or the national Amateur Radio Association you belong to and all translated into english. After all the papers are submitted personally and complete to the responsible NTC (bring your original for presentation only, never give them away.).  It takes 4 day's here in Manila (the NTCR has change its procedure in August 1998) to obtain the licenses. For Metro Manila, Capital Region the responsible officer is Mr. Baylon, if the NTCR Director is in the office it might be faster, ask for Director Ramirez .  Mostly both of them are very exited to meet foreignen Amateurs.
To avoid confusion about the equivalent class of your license, bring some supporting documents, describing the Amateur License Class you are holding.
An application fee of currently 150P will be charged. Application forms for the permits must be obtained by the responsible NTC. There is no unique form and every NTC is producing their own application form. At the moment Region 3 is issuing     4F3/.......(Foreignen Call), wherein Region 1 is issuing    DU1/.....(Foreignen Call). I do not have information about the other Regions, but it seems to become a standard to do the issuing of calls in accordance to the ITU-R recommendations. (guest country prefix before the licensing country). The permitted frequency bands are listed bellow.

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Philippine Call Sign
If you intend to stay longer in the Philippines and you wish to have a local amateur call sign DU1.... You need to take the Amateur Radio Examination. The NTC will advise you in the requirements to do so. They have to grant you the privilege to take the examination test. This takes on a regular base a minimum of two month, granting the privilege to take the exam, releasing the results (after one month) and finally getting the Call sign.
 
 

Philippine Amateurs
If you like to met some nice OM's join one of the local clubs, where you could meet some real nice HAM's,  OM's which are in the true spirit of amateur radio. Inquirer by PARA about the nearest club to you QTH.

Here some QRG's frequently used
Weekend Round  on 40m   7045 kHz, LSB hourly in the morning on weekends, just login into Net Control.
Sometimes 145,400kHz FM if there are no pirates on air (there are many in VHF).

If you arround Quezon City you are invited to join us DX1RPI.

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Band Allocation in DU
for the Amateur Radio Station of the Republic of the Philippines

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