Amateur Radio Ordinance

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Basic data
Title: Ordinance on the Amateur Radio Act
Short title: Amateur Radio Ordinance
Previous title: Ordinance on the implementation of the law on amateur radio
Abbreviation: AFuV
Type: Federal Ordinance
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Issued on the basis of: Sections 3, 4, 6, 8 AFuG 1997
Legal matter: Telecommunications law,
special administrative law
References : 9022-2-2
Original version from: March 23, 1949 ( WiGBl. P. 21)
Entry into force on: March 23, 1949
Last revision from: February 15, 2005
( BGBl. I p. 242 )
Entry into force of the
new version on: 		February 19, 2005
Last change by: Art. 4 para. 114 G of 7 August 2013
(Federal Law Gazette I p. 3154)
Effective date of the
last change: 		August 14, 2018
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

The Ordinance on the Law on Amateur Radio or in short the Amateur Radio Ordinance (AFuV 2005) is a federal German ordinance and is intended to regulate the details of the Amateur Radio Act . The first Amateur Radio Ordinance came into force at the same time as the Amateur Radio Act on March 23, 1949, i.e. before the Basic Law . The Amateur Radio Ordinance was last amended to the current version on February 15, 2005.

History of the Amateur Radio Ordinance

The first amateur radio ordinance was passed in 1949 as an ordinance to implement the law on amateur radio (DVO). At that time there were 2 license classes, class A with limited access to the shortwave bands, but an easier amateur radio test (slower Morse code in the telegraphy test). In addition, there was class B for all bands assigned to amateur radio. The responsibility for amateur radio lay with the military government, or with the Federal Post Office and the German Federal Post as the competent authority.

In 1961, the Deutsche Bundespost allowed the radio telex operating mode for the first time.

The DVO underwent a major change on March 13, 1967, when the C license was introduced, which for the first time dispensed with the testing of telegraphy . So now there were the classes A , B and C . At the same time z. For example, amateur radio television was approved, and it was not until 1971 that satellite communications were also approved as an amateur radio service via satellites .

As a result of the postal reforms, supervision of amateur radio changed from the Deutsche Bundespost first to the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, then to the Deutsche Telekom AG, which has sovereign powers. After the separation into supervisory authority and commercial enterprise, the Federal Office for Post and Telecommunications became responsible.

As part of the amendment to the Amateur Radio Act in 1997, a new Amateur Radio Ordinance was passed. The amateur radio certificates were introduced, so for the first time there was a separation of the test certificate (now also internationally harmonized according to CEPT ) and the allocation of the callsign , which allowed one to use the frequencies assigned to amateur radio in the frequency plan . At the same time, the old license classes A and B were combined to form the new class 1 . Class C became the new class 2 and with class 3 a new license class was created, in which only basic knowledge of the amateur radio test is tested and with which one was only allowed to transmit with low power on some VHF amateur radio bands . The only difference between classes 1 and 2 was the telegraphy test passed for class 1 . During the same period, the entire telecommunications law was liberalized, so the frequency usage plan only came into force after some delay. As of January 1, 1998, the Federal Office for Post and Telecommunications was renamed the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post and at the same time the Federal Post Ministry was dissolved or incorporated into the Federal Ministry of Economics.

On August 15, 2003 the Federal Ministry of Economics published a press release, according to which license holders of class 2 were allowed to use all available frequency ranges of the amateur radio service temporarily. This declaration was based on the WRC (World Radio Conference) 2003, on which it was decided that the amateur radio administrations could decide for themselves whether or not a telegraphy test for shortwave access is required. Violations of the amateur radio ordinance were tolerated for a year and a half. This transitional arrangement was in effect until February 18, 2005; on February 19, the ordinance in force today came into force.

On February 19, 2005, the last amendment to the Amateur Radio Ordinance came into force. The amateur radio classes 1 and 2 became the new class A and the class 3 was renamed the class E. Many detailed regulations have now been placed in the hands of the RegTP, e.g. B. the test content, the distribution of the call sign prefixes to the amateur radio certificate classes, etc. As a major change for the radio amateurs , certain operating modes were no longer permitted or approved, but only limited the bandwidth of the transmissions.

The second law for the new regulation of the energy industry law of July 7, 2005 changed the amateur radio ordinance of December 23, 1997, which was no longer applicable since February 19, 2005. The same mishap happened with the frequency range allocation plan regulation, the version from 2001 was changed in July 2005, although there was a new frequency range allocation plan regulation since the end of 2004, which repealed the regulation of the same name from 2001. The content of these changes was the renaming of the regulatory authority for telecommunications and post (RegTP) to the BNetzA .

On September 1, 2006, class E was reorganized in the amateur radio ordinance and the operating rights were extended for both amateur radio certificate classes . At the same time, the above-mentioned mishap was corrected and the necessary changes with regard to the regulatory authority incorporated. For class A there are specific additional frequency ranges in the 40 m band and in the 6 m band . Class E will receive a few shortwave bands in addition to its previous amateur bands (the 160 m band , the 80 m band , the 15 m band and the 10 m band ). The maximum permissible output power in the KW was increased to 100W PEP and the FM range from a maximum of 10W EIRP to 75W PEP, in the 3 cm band to 5W PEP. Other changes concern the exams. It is now possible to upgrade from class E to class A without having to take a complete A-exam. The amateur radio exams are now identical in terms of operational engineering and legal science - only in the technology examination area, only the essential basics are examined in the class E examination.

scope

The Amateur Radio Ordinance applies on the basis of the Amateur Radio Act .

Definitions

For the purposes of the regulation is

  1. "Technical examination for radio amateurs" an examination for the acquisition of an amateur radio certificate;
  2. "Amateur radio certificate or examination certificate" the confirmation from a domestic or foreign examination authority that a professional examination for radio amateurs has been successfully passed according to certain examination requirements (certificate class);
  3. "Club Station" means an amateur radio station operated by members of a group of radio amateurs using a shared call sign ;
  4. "Remote-controlled or automatically operating amateur radio station" means an unmanned amateur radio station which, remotely or automatically generates transmissions (relay stations, digipeaters, radio beacons, etc.);
  5. "Relay radio station" means a remote-controlled amateur radio station (also in satellites) that transmits received amateur radio broadcasts, parts of them or other signals fed in or stored in a remote manner and thereby serves to increase the accessibility of amateur radio stations;
  6. "Funkbake" an automatically working amateur radio transmission system (also in satellites), which automatically generates transmissions for field strength observation or reception attempts;
  7. "Peak Power (PEP)" means the power that the transmitter can deliver on average to a real terminating resistor under normal operating conditions during a period of high frequency oscillation at the highest peak of the modulation envelope;
  8. "Effective Radiated Power (ERP)" the product of the power that is directly fed to the antenna and its gain in one direction, based on the half-wave dipole;
  9. "Equivalent isotropic radiated power (EIRP)" means the product of the power that is directly fed to the antenna and its gain in one direction, based on the isotropic radiator;
  10. "Occupied bandwidth" means the frequency bandwidth at which the mean power levels emitted below their lower and above their upper frequency limits each amount to 0.5% of the total mean power of the emission;
  11. "Unwanted transmission" means any transmission outside the required bandwidth; this is the bandwidth that is just sufficient for a given type of transmission to ensure the transmission of the message with the speed and quality that is required under the given conditions.

Regulations

From the current version from 2005:

This regulation regulates

  1. the implementation and the content requirements of the technical examination for radio amateurs ,
  2. the classification of the different types of amateur radio certificates ,
  3. the recognition of foreign amateur radio examination certificates or permits,
  4. the procedure for the allocation and details of the application and joint use of call signs ,
  5. the training radio operation,
  6. the technical and operational framework for the implementation of the amateur radio service, including the Terms of use of the frequency usage plan for the amateur service designated frequency ranges ( Appendix 1 AFuV) and
  7. the fees and expenses for measures according to § 8 sentence 2 of the Amateur Radio Act ( Appendix 2 AFuV).

The regulations of the ordinance on the verification procedure for the limitation of electromagnetic fields (BEMFV) remain unaffected.

Various regulations, which can be subject to more rapid changes, have been regulated from the Amateur Radio Ordinance in the form of authorizations from the Federal Network Agency. The Federal Network Agency provides the relevant rulings and notifications for download.

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