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ANNEXURE -I. (See rules 5 & 10)
Conditions for the conduct of Amateur Wireless Telegraph Station
1. Use of the Amateur Station:- (1) The amateur station shall be used as part of self training, intercommunication technical investigation 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 University, the use of the station shall be confined to technical investigations 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 of or admit person to participate in the benefits of the licence.
II. Message:- (a) Radio communication 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 Telecommunications. (b) Transmissions shall be made in plain language and limited to message 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 reproducing sinusoidal tone or tones with in 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 broad cast 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 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) Not withstanding clause (a), sub-condition (1) and clause (d ), sub-condition (2) the licensees in case of normal telecommunication facilities, are permitted to handle third party message, pertaining to natural calamities such as earthquakes, 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 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 app aratus shall be tuned as accurately as possible to ensure that no energy is radiated 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, that 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 provisions of the convention or the wireless signalling between any fixed, land or mobile stations of India 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 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 (Diary 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 of establishing and terminating communication with each station and the frequency 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 initialled at the time of receiving and transmitting.
(4) In case the station is operated by a person other than the licensee (set rule 23), the licensee shall ensure logis signed by that person indicating his name, call sign 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:
(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 transmission except in the case of Short Wave Listeners 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 be so arranged as not to endanger the safety of licensee or other persons.. (3) The wireless telegraphy apparatus shall be kept in a safe condition and housed in such a manner as to access to unauthorised persons. (4) The transmitter shall be of a type that has a frequency stability comparable to that of crystal control. (5) Meters of standard accuracy shall be installed to measures the d.c. power input to the anode circuit of the radio frequency stage of the transmitter.(6) The aerial used or intended to be used shall be so erected, fixed, placed as not to cross above or fall on the power, telegraph or telephone line. If required, the licensee shall 1 take necessary steps to ground , to the satisfaction owner or owners concerned, so as to prevent any damage being done in the event of a break occurring in the aerial. The installation shall not cause hazard to flight of aircraft and their heights shall be within the limits specified by the Director General of Civil Aviation in India from time to time. The licensee shall, if so directed install and maintain beacon lights on and paint the mast of the station at his own cost.
VIII. Secrecy of Correspondence:- If any message which the licencee is not entitled to receive is, nevertheless received, the licencee 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 use of such message or allow the same to be reproduced in writing, copied or made use of.
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