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Bill: Amateur Radio Service and the creation of the Dolgavian Telecommunications Commission or DTC
Details
Submitted by[?]: Die rechte nationalistische Partei
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 4470
Description[?]:
Amateur Radio is a hobby enjoyed by many people worldwide. This Bill explains (Sometimes technically) the service and what operators can do and not do. This is not anything serious but it is the first bill of its kind in Terra. This bill isn't important except it does help the government in times of emergency. The people will be able to assist the government to pass the information along and will get involved to protect their country. OOC http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio OOC https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/mobility-division/amateur-radio-service OOC Influenced a lot from FCC Part 97 which is US law Part 20 Definition of Dolgavian Telecommunications Commission: This is a government system that governs, enforces and organizes all public communication with the use of radio and television signals. They may not make laws but they can make bills through congressman that can be voted on in the Congress. They will have the authority to withhold or confiscate material from individuals through a search warrant and with local police agencies to help. Subpart A—General Provisions §21.1 Basis and purpose. The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles: (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art. (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art. (d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts. (e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill. §21.3 Definitions. (a) The definitions of terms used in part 21 are: (1) Amateur operator. A person named in an amateur operator/primary license station grant on the DLS consolidated licensee database to be the control operator of an amateur station. (2) Amateur radio services. The amateur service, the amateur-satellite service and the radio amateur civil emergency service. (4) Amateur service. A radiocommunication service for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication and technical investigations carried out by amateurs, that is, duly authorized persons interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest. (5) Amateur station. A station in an amateur radio service consisting of the apparatus necessary for carrying on radiocommunications. (6) Automatic control. The use of devices and procedures for control of a station when it is transmitting so that compliance with the DTC Rules is achieved without the control operator being present at a control point. (7) Auxiliary station. An amateur station, other than in a message forwarding system, that is transmitting communications point-to-point within a system of cooperating amateur stations. (8) Bandwidth. The width of a frequency band outside of which the mean power of the transmitted signal is attenuated at least 26 dB below the mean power of the transmitted signal within the band. (9) Beacon. An amateur station transmitting communications for the purposes of observation of propagation and reception or other related experimental activities. (10) Broadcasting. Transmissions intended for reception by the general public, either direct or relayed. (11) Call sign system. The method used to select a call sign for amateur station over-the-air identification purposes. The call sign systems are: (i) Sequential call sign system. The call sign is selected by the DTC from an alphabetized list corresponding to the geographic region of the licensee's mailing address and operator class. The call sign is shown on the license. The DTC will issue public announcements detailing the procedures of the sequential call sign system. (ii) Vanity call sign system. The call sign is selected by the DTC from a list of call signs requested by the licensee. The call sign is shown on the license. The DTC will issue public announcements detailing the procedures of the vanity call sign system. (12) Amateur Radio operators can assist public agencies and the government at any time especially during emergencies. (13) Harmful interference. Interference which endangers the functioning of a radionavigation service or of other safety services or seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radiocommunication service operating in accordance with the Radio Regulations. (14) Repeater. An amateur station that simultaneously retransmits the transmission of another amateur station on a different channel or channels Part 21 B Authorized transmissions. (Amateur Radio Only) (a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way communications: (1) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with other stations in the amateur service, except those in any country whose administration has notified the DTC that it objects to such communications. The DTC will issue public notices of current arrangements for international communications. (2) Transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs and to facilitate relief actions. (3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in another DTC-regulated service while providing emergency communications; (4) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a Dovlgavian People's Republic of Freedom's government station, necessary to providing communications in RACES; and (5) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in a service not regulated by the DTC, but authorized by the DTC to communicate with amateur stations. An amateur station may exchange messages with a participating Dovlgavian Republic military station during an Armed Soldier Day Communications Test. (b) In addition to one-way transmissions specifically authorized elsewhere in this part, an amateur station may transmit the following types of one-way communications: (1) Brief transmissions necessary to make adjustments to the station; (2) Brief transmissions necessary to establishing two-way communications with other stations; (3) Telecommand; (4) Transmissions necessary to providing emergency communications; (5) Transmissions necessary to assisting persons learning, or improving proficiency in, the international Morse code; and (6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information bulletins. (7) Transmissions of telemetry. Prohibited transmissions. (Amateur Radio Service Only) (a) No amateur station shall transmit: (1) Communications specifically prohibited elsewhere in this part; (2) Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules; (3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer, with the following exceptions: (i) A station licensee or station control operator may participate on behalf of an employer in an emergency preparedness or disaster readiness test or drill, limited to the duration and scope of such test or drill, and operational testing immediately prior to such test or drill. Tests or drills that are not government-sponsored are limited to a total time of one hour per week; except that no more than twice in any calendar year, they may be conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours. (ii) An amateur operator may notify other amateur operators of the availability for sale or trade of apparatus normally used in an amateur station, provided that such activity is not conducted on a regular basis. (iii) A control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used by that teacher as a part of classroom instruction at an educational institution. (iv) The control operator of a club station may accept compensation for the periods of time when the station is transmitting telegraphy practice or information bulletins, provided that the station transmits such telegraphy practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours per week; schedules operations on at least six amateur service MF and HF bands using reasonable measures to maximize coverage; where the schedule of normal operating times and frequencies is published at least 30 days in advance of the actual transmissions; and where the control operator does not accept any direct or indirect compensation for any other service as a control operator. (4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act; messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein; obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or identification. (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished alternatively through other radio services. (b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, nor may an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as specifically provided in these rules; nor shall an amateur station engage in any activity related to program production or news gathering for broadcasting purposes, except that communications directly related to the immediate safety of human life or the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the public where no other means of communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event. (c) No station shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from any type of radio station other than an amateur station, except propagation and weather forecast information intended for use by the general public and originated from Dolgavian Republic Government stations, and communications, including incidental music, originating on Dolgavian Republic Government frequencies between a manned spacecraft and its associated Earth stations. Prior approval for manned spacecraft communications retransmissions must be obtained from the Dolgavian National Space Agency. Such retransmissions must be for the exclusive use of amateur radio operators. Propagation, weather forecasts, and manned spacecraft communications retransmissions may not be conducted on a regular basis, but only occasionally, as an incident of normal amateur radio communications. (d) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater, or space station, may automatically retransmit the radio signals of other amateur station |
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