DATV Experimenter's Night - New Class Licence, Mag Loops, DUBUS and more
00:05:00 - All about the new Class Licence
00:06:13 - Documents we are talking about:
Radiocommunications (Amateur Stations) Class Licence 2023
https://legislation.gov.au/Details/F2...
Explanatory Statement
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Detail...
Radiocommunications (Amateur Licences – Renewal Statement) Determination 2023
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Detail...
Radiocommunications (Amateur Licences) Amendment Instrument 2023 (No. 1)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Detail...
00:07:32 - Refresher - under Radiocommunications Act 1992 there are three types of licence - spectrum, apparatus and class:
Spectrum - licence to use a part of the spectrum with the conditions specified - eg mobile phone spectrum
Apparatus - licence to operate a radiocommunications devices to which the licences relate - eg. currently amateurs, - remaining
beacons and repeaters
Class - licence under which any person may operate radiocommunications devices that come within the terms /conditions or
parameters of the licence
00:09:33 - Five Amateur Radio - Class Licence conditions or parameters:
00:10:46 - 1). qualifications held by a person operating an amateur station;
00:11:51 - 2). use of call signs to enable identification of the person operating an amateur station;
00:13:30 - 3). permitted frequency bands on which an amateur station may be operated;
00:15:27 - 4). transmitter output power limits for the operation of amateur stations; and
00:16:49 - 5). electromagnetic energy requirements for the operation of amateur stations.
00:20:21 - Other Conditions
00:24:09 - Transition arrangements - https://www.acma.gov.au/amateur-radio...
00:24:36 - It's Free!
00:26:25 - ACMA will communicate with you!
00:27:24 - Callsigns now have an "Assignment Period"
00:29:00 - Callsign Register replaces the amateurs in the RADCOM database.
00:30:24 - Human Rights!
00:35:24 - 6-15m Magnetic Loop Antenna
00:40:30 - Latest DUBUS magazine - atmospheric absorption