A GUIDE TO
NEW AMATEUR RADIO RULES IN INDIA
THIS IS NOT
OFFICAL COPY BUT FOR GENERAL INFORMATION ONLY: VU2JOS
Note:
Changes are put in Red with underline
Highlights:
Types of Licences: Two
1.
Restricted Grade
2.
General Grade
Licence issued for minimum of 20 years!
Option for
Life Long licence!
Fees
drastically increased.
Grace
period for late renewal increased to 5 years (Even facility to
renew for over 10 years delay)
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Examination Fee: |
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20 Years |
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Life Long* |
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100 |
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Change of location: |
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* Life Long means till the holder attains the age of 80
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THE INDIAN WIRELESS TELEGRAPH (AMATEUR
SERVICE) AMENDMENT RULES, 2005
G.S.R. No. 385
(E):-- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 and section
7 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the
Indian Wireless Telegraphs (Amateur
Service) Rules, 1978.
1. Short title and commencement:
(1) These rules may be called the
Indian Wireless Telegraphs (Amateur Service) Rules, 2005.
(2) They shall come into force on 19th
June 2005.
2. Definitions:
In these
rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-
a. `Act' means the Indian Telegraph Act,
1885 (13 of 1885)
b. `Amateur service' means a service of
self training, inter-communication and technical investigations carried on by
amateurs that is, by persons duly authorised under
these rules interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and
without pecuniary interest; `amateur station', and `station' shall have the
meaning respectively assigned to them in the Convention;
c. `Amateur Radio Beacon’ means a
station in the Amateur Service having transmitter (s) emitting carrier wave
along with identification signals at regular interval. Such beacons can be
directional or non-directional;
d. `Amateur Station’, and
"Amateur Satellite Service" `Station’ shall have the meaning respectively
assigned to them in the Convention;
e. `Convention' means the International
Telecommunication Convention, Malaga Torremolinos,
1973, for the time being in force and the Radio Regulations and the Additional
Radio Regulations annexed thereto but does not include any portion of the said
Convention or Regulations regarding which the Central Government makes any
reservation;
f. `Licence'
means a licence granted under section 4 of the Act
for an amateur wireless telegraph station.
3. Necessity for licence:
No person shall establish, maintain
and work an amateur wireless telegraph station except under and in accordance
with the terms and conditions of an appropriate licence
under these rules.
4. Categories of licence:
There shall be two categories of licences,
namely:
(i) Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence (General)
(ii)
Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence (Restricted)
5. Eligibility for licence:
(1) A licence
may be granted subject to such conditions contained in Annexure I to these
rules -
(i) to a person,-
a. who is a citizen of
b. who is not less than 18 years of age;
c. who qualifies the Amateur Station
Operators’ Examination for the award of licence
or holds either of the following certificate of proficiency, namely:
(i) Radio-communication Operators' General Certificates;
(ii)
First or Second Class Radio-telegraph Operators' Certificate; provided that the
holder of a Special Radio Telegraph Operator’s Certificate may also be
considered eligible for the award of Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence (Restricted)
(iii) To a bonafide amateur radio society,
club or a school, college, or an institution or a university in
India, which has the aim of
Investigations in the field of radio or the training
of persons in radio communication techniques.
Provided that the licence shall be issued in
the name of an authorized
official of the society, club, school, college, institute or a
University in India holding a category of licence
appropriate to the transmissions to be conducted by the station
including
amateur radio beacon transmission.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained
in sub-clause (b) of sub-rule (1),
the Central Government may grant, to bonafide
experimenters between the age of 12 and 18 years, Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence (General) or ,
Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence
(Restricted)
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained
in sub-clause (c) of clause (i) of sub-rule (1), the
Central Government may recognize, subject to any conditions it may prescribe
from time to time, such other radiotelegraph operators' certificates or Amateur
Station Operators' Certificates as are issued by a competent authority in any
other country as equivalent to qualifications referred to in aforesaid sub-rule
for the purpose of grant of licence under these
rules.
6. An application for licence:
An application for the grant of licence from:
(a) an individual,
or
(b) an
Amateur Radio Society or club or a school, college or an institute or a
University in India shall be made to the Central
Government in Annexure II or Annexure
III respectively to these rules, shall be made to the Central Government in
Annexure II or
Annexure III respectively to these
rules, together with all the subsidiary forms and documents duly filled in and
completed in all
respects.
7. Eligibility for admission to
amateur station Operators Examination:
No person shall be eligible for
admission to an examination for the grant of licence
unless:-
(a) such a
person fulfils the provisions contained in sub-clauses (a), (b) and (c) of clause (i)
of sub-rule (1) of rule 5;
(b) such
person pays the fees on the following scale, namely :-
(i) Amateur
Station Operators' (General)
Examination
: Rs. 100/-
(ii)
Amateur Station Operators' (Restricted)
Examination : Rs. 100/-
8. Examinations:
(1) The examinations for the grant of
a licence shall be held at a place and on a date as
may be notified by the Central Government from time to time.
(2) An application for licence in Annexure II to the rules shall be submitted not
later than one month before the date of
desired examination.
(3) Any person admitted to the
examination and found guilty of impersonation or of submitting fabricated
documents or documents which have been tampered with or of making statements
which are incorrect or false or of suppressing material information or of using
or attempting to use unfair means in the examination hall or otherwise
resorting to any other irregular or improper means for obtaining admission to
the examination may, in addition to rendering himself liable to criminal
prosecution, be debarred either permanently or for a specified period from
appearing in any of the examinations held for the award of licence
under these rules:
Provided that no order under this
sub-rule shall be made unless the person concerned has been given a reasonable
opportunity or making a representation against the action proposed to be taken.
(4) If any person is found guilty of
any malpractice referred to in sub-rule (3) after the grant of a licence to such person, the Central Government may, in
addition to prosecuting him cancel the licence so
given:
Provided that the Central Government
may, pending the cancellation of the licence, suspend or endorse such licence:
Provided further
that no order under this sub-rule shall be made unless the person concerned has
been given a reasonable opportunity of making a representation against the
action proposed to be taken.
9. Grant of licence:
Every
category of licence shall be in the form set out in
Annexure IV to these rules.
10. Observance of conditions of licence, convention and rules under the Act:
(1) Every licensed amateur wireless
telegraph station shall be established, maintained and worked in accordance
with –
a. the conditions contained in Annexure I
to these rules;
b. the provisions of the Convention;
c. the rules made by the Central
Government under section 7 of the Act for the conduct of wireless telegraphs in
so far as they are applicable.
(2) Notwithstanding sub-rule (1) the
Central Government may modify, vary, cancel or revoke any of the conditions of licence contained in the said Annexure I at any time either
by specific notice in writing to the licensee, or by means of a general notice
published in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper published in
(3) The licensee shall at his own
expense, give effect to any variations in the conditions of licence,
11. Period of validity:
(1) A licence
granted under these rules shall be issued for a period of 20 years or lifelong as the case maybe commencing
on the date of issue of the licence and expiring on
the last day of the month proceeding the month of issue.
Explanation:- For the purpose of of this
rule, the expression “lifelong”means till
the licence holder attains the age of 80 years.
(2)
Validity of lifelong licence may be extended on
specific request of the licence holder for 10 years
at a time without any additional payment.
12. Fee for licence:
(1) A licence
fee on the following scale shall be payable to the Central Government on receipt
of instructions from that Government and in the manner directed bv it:-
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Category of licence : |
Fees in Rupees |
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20 years |
Life Long |
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(i)
Advanced Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence
(General) |
1000/- |
2000/- |
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(ii) Amateur Wireless Telegraph
Station Licence, (Restricted) |
1000/- |
2000/- |
(2) The licence
fee shall not be refundable on ground of licenscee`s
inability to establish or make use of the licenced Amateur
Wireless Telegraph Station or for adjustment towards higher category of licence.
13. Authorised
frequency bands, power and emission:
A holder of licence
shall use, as appropriate to the licence, such
frequency bands, power and classes of emission as are set out in Annexure V of
these rules : Provided that the Central Government may by special or general
order make changes in the usage of frequency bands, power and types of emission
where that Government is satisfied, that it is expedient to do so, keeping in
view, among others, the provisions of the Convention, need for enforcement of
better technical standards in respect of equipment and national and
international radio interference pattern.
14. Renewal of licence:
(1) On the expiry of the validity of a
licence, it may be renewed for a period of twenty years if the licensee,-
(a) Makes an application for renewal
at least two months before the date of expiry of the licence.
(b) Has actively operated his station
during the past two years prior to the date of expiry of his licence and provides a certificate to the effect that he
has made contacts with other amateur stations on at least 40 occasions per
year; .
(c) Pay a
fee of Rs.1000/-
(2) The licence
fee shall not be refundable on ground of licencee’s
inability to establish or make use of the licenced
Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station or for adjustment towards higher category of
licence.
(3) The document showing the renewal
of licence issued by the Central Government shall be
kept along with the licence to which it refers.
(4) It shall not be obligatory for the
Central Government to issue a notice that the licence
is due for renewal.
** Under deserving cases and for
exceptionally genuine reasons, the ASOC licence can
also be renewed up to a period of 10 years with charging late fee and for the
period beyond 10 years, the licence can be renewed
after getting fresh inter-ministerial consultations. This in no way however
confers any right to the candidates seeking ASOC renewal under this category
and the right of decision of renewal in such cases will solely remain with the
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.
15. Surcharge for late renewal:
In case the holder of a licence does not apply for its renewal prior to the date of
expiry of the licence referred to in sub-rule (1) of
rule 14, he may apply for the renewal of licence
subsequently also but within a period of five
years** after the date of expiry of the licence on
payment of a surcharge at the rate of Rs.100/-
for every half-year or part thereof. The licence in
such a case shall be renewed from the date of expiry of the licence.
16. Register for wireless telegraphy
apparatus:
Every licensee shall maintain a
register in respect of all wireless telegraphy apparatus established,
maintained and worked by him at the amateur station in the form set out in
Annexure VI of these rules.
17. Location of Amateur Station:
The location of the amateur station
shall be specified in the licence along with the
usual residence of the licensee endorsed therein and it shall be operated only
from the place so fixed. Provided that the Central Government may, permit the
change of location if the licensee applies for it in writing giving particulars
of the change and submits the license for endorsement, and pays a fee of Rs.200/-.
18. Portable and mobile Amateur
Station:
Without prejudice to rule 17, the
Central Government may in addition to an amateur station licensed for a
(1) Specified location issue a special
authorisation to establish, maintain and work an
amateur station as a portable station or a mobile station fixed on board a
motor vehicle for a specific period in special occasions like exhibitions and
jamborees or for specific technical investigations in radio if-
(i)
Application for such authorisation is made well in
advance indicating, among others, the specific period for which the
authorisation is required, nature of investigations
or details in regard to occasion as the case may be, and area of operation;
(ii) The applicant holds an Advanced
Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence or an
Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station
Licence (General);
(iii) The applicant pays an additional
fee of Rs.200/-.
(2) The special authorisation
shall, in addition to the conditions specified in rule 10, be subject to
following, namely:-
(i)The special authorisation
shall not be issued for a period more than 90 days.
(ii) The
licensee's amateur station at the fixed location and the mobile station shall
not communicate with each others;
(iii) The suffix
`MO' shall be added to the callsign already authorised to
the licensee's amateur station at the fixed location for
use by the portable or mobile station. Such callsign shall be followed by the location of the station.
(iv) Such other conditions as the Central Government may
determine from time to time.
(3) The special authorization may be
withdrawn or the conditions contained therein varied at any time by the Government.
19. Amateur Station on board ship:
(1) Without prejudice to rule 17, the
Central Government may on receipt of an application authorise
establishment, maintenance and working of an amateur station on board a ship
registered in
(2) The establishment, maintenance and
working of amateur stations on board ships shall, in addition to the conditions
specified under rule 10, be subject to such other conditions as the Central
Government may determine from time to time and such conditions, among others,
shall include the following, namely:-
(i) The amateur station on board ship shall be
operated only while the ship is in International waters or Indian territorial
waters. Its
operation within the territorial waters of
another country shall be in conformity
with laws and regulations of
the country concerned.
(ii) It shall not be operated whilst
the ship is in any harbour in
(iii) The callsign
allotted to such stations shall have suffix `MS' followed by the callsign of the ship in case of radiotelegraphy or the
official name of the ship in case of
radiotelephony.
(iv) The amateur station on board a ship shall
discontinue operation at any time on request of an officer of the Central
Government, the
Master or Radio Officer of the ship or any land station.
20. Loss and Issue of Duplicate of Licence and Document showing the Renewal of Licence:
(1) A person whose licence
or the document showing the renewal of licence has
been lost, mutilated or destroyed shall notify the same to the Central
Government. An application in Annexure VII of these rules for the duplicate
shall be made to the Central Government embodying a statement of the
circumstances involved in the loss, mutilation or destruction of the licence or the document showing the renewal of licence for which a duplicate is required. If the licence or the document showing the renewal of licence has been lost, the applicant must state the
circumstance in which it was lost and the reasonable search has been made for
it, and further that in the event it be found, either the original or the
duplicate shall be returned for cancellation. The mutilated licence
or the document showing the renewal of licence for
which the duplicate is required should be forwarded along with the application
for cancellation.
(2) The Central Government may issue
duplicate copy of any licence or the document showing
the renewal of the licence and the following charges
shall be levied for such issue-
(i) For duplicate of licence .
…………………………….
……………… Rs. 100/-
(ii) For duplicate of
the document showing the renewal of licence….. Rs.100/-
21. Revocation of licence:
(1) The Central Government may, at any
time, revoke the licence
(i) On the breach of any of the conditions of licence contained in Annexure I; or
(ii) In default of payment of any fees
payable under these rules :
Provided that, before revoking a licence, the licencsee shall be
given a reasonable opportunity of making a representation against the action
proposed to be taken.
(2) The licensee shall not be entitled
to any compensation arising out of revocation of his licence
nor will any part of the fees paid for the licence
shall be refunded for the period a licence stands
revoked.
22. Transfer of licence:
A licence
shall not be transferable:
Provided that the
Central Government may permit the transfer of a licence
granted to an authorised official of an amateur radio
society or club or a school, college or an institute or a University in India
in favour of his successor if such successor holds a
category of licence appropriate to the transmissions
to be conducted by the amateur station.
23. Operation of licensed amateur
station:
No person other than the licensee
shall be permitted to operate the licensed amateur station:
Provided that –
(a) In the presence of the licensee
himself, the station may be operated by an
other person holding a valid licence of
comparable or higher category. The licensee, however, shall be personally
responsible for the observance of these rules as if the station is operated by
him.
(b) In case of a licence
issued to an authorised official of an amateur radio
society or club or a school, college, or an institution or a University in
India, the station may also be operated by a person who holds a licence of equivalent or higher category with the prior
permission of the Central Government in writing; if the licensee keeps personal
surveillance over the operation of the station. The licensee shall be
responsible for the observance of these rules.
24. Surrender of licence:
A licence
which is revoked or which has become invalid and licensee does not desire to
renew it shall be surrendered to the Central Government for cancellation and
record.
25. Dual holding of licence:
No person shall be granted more than
one licence at the same time:
Provided that the Central Government
may exempt a person, holding a licence in his name
for amateur radio society or a school, college or an institute or a university
in India, from the operation of this rule.
26. Admission of foreign national to
examination and grant of licence:
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained
in these rules, the Central Government may, subject to such terms and
conditions as it may impose from time to time, admit a person, who is not a
citizen of
(2) The conditions under sub-section
(1) shall, among others, include the following, namely:-
(i) the
country of which the applicant is citizen, grants reciprocal facilities to
Indian nationals :
Provided that it shall not apply where the Central Government considers
that reciprocal facilities are not necessary;
(ii) the applicant is above the age of 18
years;
(iii) the applicant's stay in India is not
likely to be less than one year
from the date of
application.
(iv) the applicant is a holder of an appropriate category of
amateur station operator's
certificate or licence issued by a competent
authority in any other country and recognised by the
Central Government.
(v) the licence
under this rule shall be initially granted for a period of one year or for the period of validity
of visa, for which the applicant's passport is endorsed, whichever is less.
27. Penalty for breach of these rules:
Any breach of these rules, other than
a breach, which is an offence under section 20 or 21 of the Act, shall be
punishable with fine which may extend -
(i)
when
the person is licensed under the Act, to one thousand rupees and in the case of
continuing breach a further fine of two hundred rupees for every day after the
first during the whole of any part of which the breach continues;
(ii)
when
a servant of the person so licensed or another person is unishable for
the breach one fourth of the amounts specified
in clause (i).
28. Repeal and saving:
(1) On the commencement of these
rules, the Indian Wireless Telegraphy (Amateur Service) Rules, 1978, shall cease to be in force.
(2) Notwithstanding such cesser,-
(a) Where before such commencement any
person has passed the Amateur Station Operators' Certificate Advanced, Grade I,
(b) Grade II, Grade
II Restricted Examination, such person shall not be required to pass
any such examination under these rules;
(b) Where, before such commencement
any person was granted Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence
Advanced, Grade I,
Grade II, Grade II Restricted or any such Licence
was renewed and the period for which such Licence was
granted or renewed
extends beyond the commencement of these
rules, then, such Licence shall continue to be in force
for the period specified in the
Licence.
ANNEXURE I
CONDITIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF
AMATEUR TELEGRAPH STATION
(See rules 5 & 10)
I. Use of the Amateur Station:
(1) The amateur station shall be used
as part of self training, intercommunication and technical investigations in
radio techniques solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest:
Provided that when the station is
licensed to an amateur radio society or club, or a school, college or an
institute or a University, the use of the station "shall be" confined
to technical investigation and training in radio communication techniques
without pecuniary interest.
(2) The station may also be used for
the purpose of receiving transmissions in the Standard Frequency Service to
facilitate operation of the station within the authorised
frequency bands.
(3) Except as provided in these rules,
the licensee shall not assign, under-let or otherwise dispose off or admit any
person to participate in the benefits of the licence.
II. Messages:
(1) (a) Radio
communications may be exchanged with other stations similarly authorised. The amateur stations are forbidden to
communicate with amateur stations of countries whose administrations have
notified the International Telecommunication Union of their objection to such
radio communications.
(b) Transmissions
shall be made in plain language and limited to messages of a technical nature
relating to tests and to remarks of personal character (excluding business
affairs or transactions) in which the licensee, or the person with whom he is
in communication, are directly concerned and for which, by reason of their
unimportance, recourse to the public telecommunication service is not
justified.
(c) Special
recordings for reproduction sinusoidal tone or tones within the audio frequency
spectrum which may be either constant or steadily changing in frequency may be
used.
(2) The licensee is forbidden to
transmit,-
(a) messages
like the reproduction of broadcast programmes or tape
recordings or transmissions of entertainment value or music;
(b) false or misleading calls, or
signals, news, advertisements, communications of business, statements on topics
of political or industrial controversy;
(c) superfluous signals or any matter
which is indecent or of obscene character or of a seditious tendency or which
is grossly offensive or such as is likely to arouse racial, religious, or
communal animosity;
(d) messages
for pecuniary reward or any messages for, or on behalf of third parties;
(3) Notwithstanding clause (a),
sub-condition (1) and clause (d), sub-condition (2) the licensees in case of
failure of normal telecommunication facilities, are permitted to handle third
party messages, pertaining to natural calamities such as earthquake, floods,
cyclones and wide spread fires, originating from and addressed to a competent
civil authority namely, (a) District Magistrates or Deputy Commissioners or
Collectors of the district and (b) any other officer authorised
by authorities mentioned at (a) above. The licensee shall inform by letter
addressed to the licensing authority regarding the use of his amateur station
for such purposes on each such occasions.
III. Frequencies, Emissions and Power:
The amateur station shall be operated
on frequencies that are within the frequency bands authorised
to respective categories of licences under rule 13
and on such classes of emissions and power not exceeding that specified in the
said rule.
IV. Frequency Control and Measurement:
(1) The transmitting apparatus shall
be tuned as accurately as possible to ensure that no energy is radiant on any
frequency outside the limits of the authorised
frequency bands.
(2) The licensee shall have at the
licensed amateur station a reliable frequency measuring equipment to verify,
each time the frequency of the transmitter is changed and whenever it is
necessary to check the transmitted frequency, the emissions are within the authorised frequency bands. The licensee shall take all
steps necessary to maintain the accuracy of the frequency measuring equipment.
V. Non-Interference:
(1) The amateur station shall be so
designed, constructed, erected, maintained and worked as not to cause interference
with any wireless telegraph service functioning, within or without India, in
accordance with the provisions of the Convention or the wireless signaling
between any fixed, land or mobile stations of Indian Land, Naval or Air Force
or between such stations and any station abroad:
Provided that in the event of
interference being caused by the station the licensee shall discontinue or
restrict transmissions, pending adjustment of the equipment, on request from:-
(a) the
Central Government; or
(b) any land
station.
(2) The licensee shall deploy all
necessary means to ensure that the radiated frequency is free from harmonics,
key clicks, hum and other forms of spurious emissions.
(3) The licensee shall ensure that the
transmitter is not over modulated.
(4) The use of class B emissions
(damped waves) is forbidden.
VI. Log (Dairy of the radio service):
(1) A chronological record of all
transmissions emanating from or received at the amateur station shall be kept
in bound book (not loose-leaf) showing the following:
(a) Date and time of each
transmission;
(b) A summary of the communications
exchanged;
(c) A brief description of the
experiments and tests undertaken;
(d) The callsign
of station or stations with which messages have been exchanged, times and type
of emission employed in each case;
(e) Time of opening and closing down
the amateur station;
(f) In case of portable or mobile
amateur station the particulars of temporary location.
(2) All times in the log shall be stated
in the Indian Standard Time.
(3) No gaps shall be left between
entries in the log and they shall be made and
initialed at the time of receiving and
transmitting.
(4) In case the station is operated by
a person other than the licensee (see rule 23), the licensee shall ensure that
log is signed by that person indicating his name, callsign
and licence number.
(5) Licensee shall preserve the log
for a period of one year from the date of last entry therein before it is
destroyed: Provided that no log shall be destroyed for such further period as
the Central Government may direct.
(6) The form of log is shown in the
Table attached to these conditions.
VII. Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus:
(1) The amateur station shall be
equipped for reception as well as transmission except in the case of Short Wave
Listeners Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station Licence
when it shall be equipped for the former only.
(2) The Wireless telegraphy apparatus
and other accessory equipment used or intended to be used by the licensee shall
be so arranged as not to endanger the safety of licensee or other persons.
(3) The wireless telegraph apparatus
shall be kept in a safe condition and housed in such manner as to preclude
access to unauthorised persons.
(4) The transmitter shall be of a type
that has a frequency stability comparable to that of a
crystal control.
(5) Meters of standard accuracy shall
be installed to measure the D.C. power input to the anode circuit of the final
radio frequency stage of the transmitter.
(6) The aerial used or intended to be
used shall be so erected, fixed, or placed as not to cross above or fall on to
any power, telegraph or telephone line.
VIII. Secrecy of Correspondence:
If any message which the licensee is not
entitled to receive is, nevertheless received, the licensee shall not make
known or allow to be made known its contents, its origin or destination, its
existence or the fact of its receipt to any person (Other than duly authorised officer of the Central Government or a competent
legal tribunal) and shall not reproduce in writing, copy or make any use of
such message or allow the same to be reproduced in writing, copied or made use
of.
IX. (1) General Radiotelegraph and
Radiotelephone Procedure:
(1)(a) Before transmitting, the
station shall take precautions to ensure that its emissions will not interfere
with transmissions already in progress. If such interference is likely the
transmission shall not commence till there is an appropriate break in the communications
is progress.
(b)The callsign
endorsed in the licence shall be sent for
identification at the beginning and at the end of each period of transmission.
When the period of transmission exceeds 10 minutes the call sign shall be
repeated. Licensee shall not make transmission without identification or with
false identification.
(c) Prolonged calls and transmissions
shall be avoided.
(d) When it is necessary to spell out
call sign, certain expressions, difficult words, abbreviations, figures etc.,
the phonetic alphabet and figure code given in the Convention shall be used.
(2) Call and Reply Procedure
(a) The call shall consist of the call
sign of the station called not more than three times;
The word DE (in case
of radiotelegraphy) and the words "This is" (in case of radio
telephony). the call sign of the calling station, not more than three
times.
(b) The reply to call shall consist of
- the call sign of the calling station, not more than three times ;the word DE
(in case of a radiotelegraphy)and the words "This us" (in case of
radio telephony). the call sign of the station called,
not more than three times.
(c) The call may be sent three times
at intervals of two minutes; thereafter it shall not be repeated until an
interval of 10 minutes during which the operator shall listen in the frequency
band is which the call has been made.
(d) In case of general call to all
stations the signal `CQ' (in case of radiotelegraphy' and the words `Hello all
stations' or the signal `CQ' (in case of radiotelephony) shall replace the call
sign of the station called in the calling procedure.
(3) End of Transmission and Work :
(a) Transmission of a message shall be
terminated by the signal AR (in case of radiotelegraphy) and the word `Over'
(in case of radiotelephony).
(b)The end of work between two
stations shall be indicated by each of them by means of signal VA (in case of
radiotelegraph) and by the word `OUT' (or VA spoken as Victor Alfa) in case of
radiotelephony.
(4) Tests :
(a) When it is necessary to make test
signals either for the adjustment of a transmitter or a receiver or for any
experiment, such signals shall not be continued for more than 30 seconds and
shall be composed of series of VVV followed by the callsign
of the station emitting the test signals. In case of radiotelephony series of
VVV shall be replaces by the figures 1,2,3,4...... spoken
in the figure code.
(b) For tests exceeding 30 seconds an
artificial aerial shall be used.
(c) Emission of carrier wave is forbidden
unless such wave is subjected to intelligible modulation.
X. Inspection:
(1) Any officer authorised
by the Central Government in that behalf in writing by them, may at all
reasonable times enter the station solely or jointly with any other person or
persons for the purpose of inspecting and may inspect, examine or test any
apparatus conduct of such inspections and tests and making available the licence, the station log or other records for examination
by the inspecting officer.
(2) The licensee when called upon to
do so by the Central Government shall arrange to forward the licence, the log book, or any other record or data for
examination by that Government.
XI. Powers to take possession of the
Amateur Station and to order interception of messages:
(1) On the occurrence of any public
emergency, or in the interest of the public safety, the Central Government or a
State Government or any officer specially authorised
in this behalf by the Central Government or a State Government may, if satisfied
that it is necessary or expedient so to do, take temporary possession (for so
long as the public emergency exists or the interest of the public safety
requires the taking of such action) of the Amateur Station.
(2) On the occurrence of any public
emergency, or in the interest of the public safety, the Central Government or a
State Government may, if satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do
in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of the
State, friendly relations with foreign state or public order or for preventing
incitement to the commission of an offence, for reasons to be recorded in
writing, by order, direct that any message of class of messages relating to any
particular subject, shall not be transmitted or received or shall be
intercepted by the station or shall be disclosed to the Government making the
order or an officer thereof mentioned in the order.
(3) The licensee shall not be entitled
to any compensation in respect of the exercise of the powers conferred by sub
condition (1) and (2) or this condition.
XII. The licensee shall indemnify the Central Government
against all actions, claims and demands which may be brought or make by any
person, body corporate or company in respect any injury arising from any act
licensed or permitted by the licence.
XIII. A copy of the Indian Wireless Telegraphs (Amateur
Service) Rules, 2005 shall be kept at the
Amateur Station.
73 Jose Jacob, VU2JOS email:
vu2jos@gmail.com