Ministério das Obras Públicas, Transportes e Comunicações (Ministry for Public Works, Transport and Communications)
Administrative Rule
(This is not an official translation of the law)
Decree-Law no. 5/95, of January 17, which regulates the carry out of the radiocommunications amateurs activity, in its articles 3, no. 4, 5, no. 2, 6, no. 5, 9, no. 2, and no. 10, no. 3, foresees that the setting up of the norms to be met for the performance of amateur ability examination and its respective subjects, the procedures related to issuing HAREC certificates and license issue, renewal and updating of CEPT amateur station, as well as the classes of licenses of CEPT amateur stations and their respective correspondences with national categories of amateur shall be defined by an administrative ruling issued by the Government member responsible for the communications area.
Under these terms and cover of articles 3, no. 4, 5, no. 2, 6, no. 5, 9, no. 2, and no. 10, no. 3, of Decree-Law no. 5/95, of January 17:
The Government, through the Ministry of Public Works, Transports and Communications orders the following:
1 - The performance of amateur ability examination is requested to Communications Institute of Portugal through an application where the following data should be included:
a) Name;
b) Place of birth;
c) Nationality;
d) Age;
f) Place of Residence;
g) Profession;
h) School education
i) Intended category, indicating for category B case, if he wishes to realise a practical telegraphy test in Morse code.
2 - Citizens of third countries should join to the mentioned application in the preceding number a certified copy of the residence permit in Portugal.
3 - Amateur ability examination shall take place at least three times per year in locations and dates fixed by ICP. The candidates should pay the corresponding fee.
4 - The ability examination for the different amateur categories are included in annex I to present administrative ruling and which is an integral part of it.
5 - Applicants to ability examination for the different amateur categories that demonstrate to have school education covering the subjects described in nos. 2.2, 2.3, 3.1 and 3.2 of annex I to present administrative ruling are forgone.
6 - Holders of radiotelegraphy certificates, issued by competent public bodies, are forgone of the practical telegraphy test in Morse code.
7 - The practical telegraphy test in Morse code which is mentioned in nos. 2.4 and 3.3 of annex I is mandatory for:
a) Amateur applicants to category A
b) Amateur applicants to category B who intend to work with telegraphy.
8 - Each examination test mentioned in annex I is classified in an independent manner.
9 - The applicant attaining a minimum classification of 50%, in correct answers, of the total questions presented in each test of the examination is considered approved in the theoretical tests.
10 - For evaluation purposes of the telegraphy transmission and reception practical tests, each word corresponds to five characters received or transmitted.
11 - The applicant attaining a minimum classification of 50%, in correct words, of the total words presented in each test of the examination is considered approved in the practical tests.
12 - An applicant to an amateur examination is forgone of those tests if he has been approved in a previous examination.
13 - It is incumbent upon ICP to proceed with:
a) Preparation of tests for the amateur ability examination;
b) Applicant approval.
14 - For the decisions made under the terms of subparagraph b) of preceding number, a recourse may take place near Chairman of the Board of ICP.
15 - The model of the examination certificate of HAREC amateur, included in annex II to present administrative ruling and which is an integral part of it, is herein approved.
16 - Approved applicants in the amateur ability examination corresponding to category A may apply to ICP the issue of a HAREC certificate of level A .
17 - Approved applicants in the amateur ability tests corresponding to category B may apply to ICP the issue of a HAREC certificate of level B.
18 - For the purpose of the laid down in nos. 16 and 17, the interested parties should file to ICP an application where is mentioned the name, address and the number of the national amateur certificate.
19 - Holder of a national amateur certificate intending to get a license of national amateur station should file an application to ICP where the following data should be included:
a) Number of transmitters or transceivers forming the amateur station, with the indication of their brand names, types, models and serial numbers, except for the cases of artisan equipment;
b) Amateur station site.
20 - Amateur associations, legally constituted, which intend to get a license of national amateur station should for this purpose present to ICP a copy of the association's constitution or of Journal of the Republic (Diário da República) where it is as well as an application indicating:
a) Identification of the association;
b) Data mentioned in subparagraphs of the preceding number.
21 - Amateur associations, legally constituted, which intend to get licenses for the installation and operation of repeater stations or radiobeacons should, for this purpose, file to ICP an application where is included all data mentioned in nrs. 15 and 16 of present administrative ruling, as well as:
a)Geographical co-ordinates of the stations site;
b)Frequency band to be used;
c)Transmitter output power;
d)Class of emission and bandwidth;
e)Height of the transmitting and receiving antennas place above average sea level;
f)Height of the transmitting and receiving antennas above average sea level;
g)Gain and radiation pattern of the transmitting and receiving antennas;
h)Polarisation of the transmitting and receiving antennas;
i)Attenuation of the antenna feed lines.
22 - In the application mentioned in the preceding number should be also included a photocopy of its articles of association.
23 - The license renewal request of a national amateur station is filed through the interested partys application to ICP.
24 - The license of a CEPT amateur station is issued by ICP and its model is shown in annex III to the present administrative ruling and which is an integral part of it.
25 - Classes of CEPT licenses and its correspondence with national amateur categories, as well as the conditions for using the assigned frequencies to radiocommunications amateur service, should meet the stipulated in CEPT Recommendation T/R 61-01.
ANNEX I
Subjects of amateurs ability examination
The ability examination tests for the different amateur categories are constituted by the subjects discriminated in present annex and in accordance with the following correspondence:
1 - Category C
1.1 - Legislation and safety (written test):
a)Regulations of amateur service;
b)Radiocommunications national legislation (general notions);
c)Radiocommunications Regulations, namely acceptable tolerance limits of the frequency, occupied bandwidth, classes of emission, maximum permitted harmonic intensity and other non-essential radiation, danger, emergency and safety signals and their utilisation;
d)General legislation on safety of high and low voltage electrical installations applicable to amateur installations;
e)Codes most frequently used in radiocommunications amateur service, namely:
Code Q:
Spelling code of phonetic alphabet;
Sinpo and Sinpfemo Codes;
f)Utilisation plans of allocated frequency bands to amateur service, recommended by IRAU (International Radiocommunications Amateurs Union).
2 - Category B
2.1 - Legislation and safety (written test):
a) Regulations of amateur service;
b) Radiocommunications national legislation (general notions);
c) Radiocommunications Regulations, namely acceptable tolerance limits of the frequency, occupied bandwidth, classes of emission, maximum permitted harmonic intensity and other non-essential radiation, danger, emergency and safety signals and their utilisation;
d) General legislation on safety of high and low voltage electrical installations applicable to amateur installations;
e) Codes most frequently used in radiocommunications amateur service, namely:
Code Q:
Spelling code of phonetic alphabet;
Sinpo and Sinpfemo Codes;
f) Utilisation plans of allocated frequency bands to amateur service, recommended by IRAU (International Radiocommunications Amateurs Union).
2.2 - Electricity (written test):
a) Definition of the basic magnitudes used in electricity and their respective units;
b) Ohm's law - its application in problem-solving;
c) Electromotive force and internal resistance of a generator;
d) Definition of direct and alternate currents. Amplitude, frequency and phase of an alternate current;
e) Inductance and capacitance - their applications and influence in electrical circuits;
f) Temperature coefficient - NTC and PTC resistors;
g) Power in electrical circuits - application;
h) Transformers - constitution and operation;
i) Alternate current rectifier systems;
j) and T filters - applications;
l) Elimination of interference.
2.3 - General notions on radioelectricity (written test):
a) Electronic valves and semiconductors - constitution and application;
b) Buffers and drivers;
c) Oscillating circuits;
d) Principles of operations of oscillators, amplifiers, frequency converters and de-modulators;
e) Sinusoidal and non sinusoidal signals;
f) Amplitude modulation (double sideband and single sideband) and angle modulation (frequency and phase) - characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of these types of modulation;
g) Detection circuits for signals modulated in amplitude, frequency and phase;
h) Tuned circuits in series, parallel and series-parallel. Determination of the impedance, phase angle and quality factor.
2.4 - Telegraphy practical test (optional):
Test of telegraphy transmission and reception, in Morse code, containing 250 characters (letters, punctuation signals and digits), received and transmitted in groups of five during five minutes.
3 - Category A
3.1 - Knowledge of apparatus used in amateur communications service, namely (written test):
a) Oscillators - types, working conditions and applications;
b) Phase Lock Loops (PLL)
c) Audiofrequency and radiofrequency amplifiers - types, working conditions and applications;
d) Transmitters - constitution, working conditions and applications;
e) Superheterodyne receivers - constitution, working conditions and operation;
f) Telegraphy transmitter keying processes - Advantages and disadvantages of these processes;
g) Antennas - types, installation and connections to transmitters;
h) Power supplies for transmitters and receivers - filtering systems used.
i) Measurement of occupied bandwidth for the different classes of emission;
j) Measurement of output power and standing wave ratio;
l) Waveform display of the transmitter output, using the oscilloscope.
3.2 - Knowledge of radioelectrical transmission and propagation on (written test):
a) Balanced and unbalanced transmission lines;
b) Non-radiating artificial antennas;
c) Dish antennas;
d) Radioelectrical propagation in different frequency bands, namely:
Critical frequency;
Maximum usable frequency (MUF);
Optimum working frequency
Electric field intensity;
Polarisation;
Fading.
3.3 - Telegraphy practical test (mandatory):
Test of telegraphy transmission and reception, in Morse code, containing 250 characters (letters, punctuation signals and digits), received and transmitted in groups of five during five minutes.
Ministry of Public Works, Transports and Communications.
Signed on March 6, 1995.
On behalf of Minister of Public Works, Transports and Communications, Carlos Alberto Pereira da Silva Costa, Secretary of State for Housing.
