Handbook on Amateur and amateur-satellite services
Foreword
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 - THE AMATEUR SERVICES
1.1 Nature of the amateur services
1.2 Training
1.3 Mutual recognition of amateur radio licences
1.3.1 CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-01
1.3.2 OAS International Amateur Radio Permit (IARP)
1.4 Standardized operator qualifications
1.4.1 Recommendation ITU-R M.1544
1.4.2 CEPT harmonized amateur radio examination certificate (HAREC)
1.5 Classification of amateur radio licences
1.5.1 Individual amateur licence
1.5.2 Club stations
1.5.3 Special event stations
1.6 Technical characteristics of stations
CHAPTER 2 - AMATEUR SERVICE
2.1 Applications of bands allocated to the amateur service
2.2 Amateur radio band plans
2.3 Amateur service operations and operator training
2.3.1 Typical operations
2.3.2 Operating activities
2.3.3 Radiosport
2.4 Role of the amateur service in emergency telecommunications
2.4.1 Amateur networks available for emergency telecommunications
2.5 Amateur systems
2.5.1 Telegraphy systems Morse code
2.5.2 Data communications systems PACTOR-II
2.5.3 Internetworking
2.5.4 Telephony systems SSB
2.5.5 Image communications systems SSTV
2.5.6 Multimedia systems
2.6 Experimentation in the amateur service
2.6.1 System development
2.6.2 Antenna design
2.6.3 Personal computers
2.6.4 Propagation research
2.6.5 Digital signal processing
CHAPTER 3 - AMATEUR-SATELLITE SERVICE
3.1 Applications of bands allocated to the amateur-satellite service
3.2 Background
3.3 Operational amateur satellites
3.4 Amateur earth stations
3.5 Experimentation in the amateur-satellite service
3.6 Frequency co-ordination in the amateur-satellite service
CHAPTER 4 - EXTRACTS OF RADIO REGULATIONS (EDITION OF 2012)
ARTICLE 1 - Terms and definitions
ARTICLE 5 - Frequency Allocations
ARTICLE 19 - Identification of stations
ARTICLE 25 - Amateur services
APPENDIX 42 (Rev.WRC-12) - Table of allocation of international call sign series
RESOLUTION 641 (Rev.HFBC-87) - Use of the frequency band 7000-7100 kHz
RESOLUTION 642 - Relating to the bringing into use of earth stations in the amateur-satellite service
RESOLUTION 644 (Rev.WRC-12) - Radiocommunication resources for early warning, disaster mitigation and relief operations
CHAPTER 5 - ITU-R QUESTIONS RELEVANT TO THE AMATEUR SERVICES
QUESTION ITU-R 48-6/5 - Techniques and frequency usage in the amateur serviceand amateur-satellite service
QUESTION ITU-R 209-4/5 - Use of the mobile, amateur and amateur satellite servicesin support of disaster radiocommunications
CHAPTER 6 - ITU-R RECOMMENDATIONS RELEVANT TO THE AMATEUR SERVICES
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1041-2 - Future amateur radio systems
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1042-3 - Disaster communications in the amateur and amateur-satellite services
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1043-2 - Use of the amateur and amateur-satellite services in developing countries
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1044-2 - Frequency sharing criteria in the amateur and amateur-satellite services
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1172 - Miscellaneous abbreviations and signals to be used for radiocommunications in the maritime mobile se
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1544 - Minimum qualifications of radio amateurs
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1677-1 - International Morse code
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.1732-1 - Characteristics of systems operating in the amateur and amateur-satellite services for use in shar
RECOMMENDATION ITU-R M.2034 - Telegraphic alphabet for data communication by phase shift keying at 31 Bd in the amateur and amateu
CHAPTER 7 - ITU-R REPORTS RELEVANT TO THE AMATEUR SERVICES
REPORT ITU-R M.2085-1 - Role of the amateur and amateur-satellite services in supportof disaster mitigation and relief
REPORT ITU-R M.2117-1 - Software-defined radio in the land mobile, amateur and amateur-satellite services
REPORT ITU-R M.2200 - Characteristics of amateur radio stations in the range 415-526.5 kHz for sharing studies
REPORT ITU-R M.2203 - Compatibility of amateur service stations with existing services in the range 415-526.5 kHz
REPORT ITU-R M.2226 - Description of amateur and experimental operation between 415 and 526.5 kHz in some countries
CHAPTER 8 - ITU-D RECOMMENDATIONS AND HANDBOOKS RELEVANT TO THE AMATEUR SERVICES