Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations (General Licence for Personal Radio Apparatus) Notice 1999 Pursuant to regulation 13 of the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations 1993, and acting under delegated authority from the Secretary of Commerce, I give the following notice: N o t i c e 1. Short title and commencement (1)This notice may be cited as the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations (General Licence for Personal Radio Apparatus) Notice 1999. (2) This notice comes into force on 4 February 1999. 2. General licence A licence under regulation 13 of the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations 1993 is granted for the installation, operation and use of radio apparatus intended for the transmission and reception of radiocommunications within New Zealand on frequencies between 476.400 MHz and 477.425 MHz. 3. Terms, conditions and restrictions (1) The frequencies available for use under this licence are those specified in the First Schedule to this notice. (2) The technical conditions applying under this licence are those specified in the Second Schedule to this notice. (3) This licence applies only to radio apparatus which complies with technical specification RFS39 (Issue 1, May 1994) and in respect of which a declaration of conformity has been submitted to the Secretary under regulation 43 of the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations 1993. (4) Frequency use is on a shared basis and the Secretary does not accept any liability under any circumstances for any loss or damage of any kind occasioned by the unavailability of frequencies or interference to reception. (5) Should interference occur the Secretary reserves the right to require that any radio apparatus licensed herein change frequency or cease operation. (6) This licence does not apply to radio apparatus which may be installed, operated or used in an automatic re-transmission (`repeater'), mode. (7) Operators of radio apparatus pursuant to this licence must, during transmissions, clearly identify themselves. (8) Radio apparatus used in the Personal Radio Service may only be used to communicate with other radio apparatus in that service using voice (speech) only communications or tones for the purpose of selective calling. (9) Tones must only be used for the selective calling of other Personal Radio Service apparatus. (10) In areas where Personal Radio Service repeater stations are in use, the repeater input channel frequencies must only be used for the purpose of operating through the repeater. (11) Connection of personal radio apparatus to the Public Switched Telephone Network (`autopatching') is not permitted. 4. Period of validity of licence This licence expires on 31 January 2004. Schedules First Schedule Channel Frequency (MHz) Channel Frequency (MHz) 1 476.425 21 476.925 2 476.450 22 476.950 3 476.475 23 476.975 4 476.500 24 477.000 5 476.525 25 477.025 6 476.550 26 477.050 7 476.575 27 477.075 8 476.600 28 477.100 9 476.625 29 477.125 10 476.650 30 477.150 11 476.675 31 477.175 12 476.700 32 477.200 13 476.725 33 477.225 14 476.750 34 477.250 15 476.775 35 477.275 16 476.800 36 477.300 17 476.825 37 477.325 18 476.850 38 477.350 19 476.875 39 477.375 20 476.900 40 477.400 Second Schedule Technical Conditions Designation of Emissions 16K0F3EJN or 16K0G3EJN for voice telephony; or 16K0F2EJN or 16K0G2EJN for selective calling. Where the type of information to be transmitted is other than speech telephony, the duration of any such transmission shall not exceed 3 seconds in any 60 second interval. Maximum Power: 5 watts carrier power (pZ) with a maximum of 21 watts E.I.R.P. Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of February 1999. KATHARINE MOODY, Manager, Radio Spectrum Management, Ministry of Commerce. Explanatory Note This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect. This note prescribes that, pursuant to regulation 13 of the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations 1993, a general licence is granted in respect of the installation, operation and use of radio apparatus on frequencies specified in this notice. The licence applies only to radio apparatus which complies with technical specification RFS39 (Issue 1, May 1994) and in respect of which a declaration of conformity has been submitted to the Secretary under regulation 43 of the Radiocommunications (Radio) Regulations 1993. This notice does not apply to apparatus which can be used as re transmission or repeater apparatus.