Young Belgian Exam Success

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The Belgium IARU member-society UBA reports 13-year-old Lana has passed her amateur radio exam

Lana is the youngest Belgian amateur radio operator, and has been assigned the callsign ON3LNA.

The UBA congratulates Lana and warmly welcomes her to our hobby world! Of course, congratulations also go to Hans, ON8PZ, her dad and CM from the DST section who undoubtedly supported her with advice and action.

More Information (Google English) - https://tinyurl.com/BelgiumUBA


Proposed French Amateur Radio Exam Changes and 60m Access

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The Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE) intends to make changes to the amateur radio exams and permit the WRC-15 60m allocation

France currently has a single 40 question HAREC amateur radio exam, however, one point is deducted for each wrong answer on the paper.

The good news is this rule is to be scrapped and a wrong answer will simply count as nil points.

It seems DGE also plans to introduce exam questions covering DSP, Sampling, Nyquist, Convolution, Anti-aliasing, and ADC/DAC.

DR@F additionally report that French radio amateurs will gain access to the WRC-15 60m band 5351.5-5366.5 kHz Secondary with 15 watts EIRP.

See the DR@F Twitter feed at - https://twitter.com/DigitalHam

DR@F website in Google English - https://tinyurl.com/FranceDRAF

Belgium Announces Introduction of CEPT Novice License

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At a recent meeting with Belgium amateur radio associations, the communications regulator, BIPT, announced it wants to introduce the CEPT Novice license and reduce Basic license power level

The BIPT Licensing Proposal

CEPT Novice license

  • Access to all HF bands (except 60 m and 160 m only 1.81-1.85 MHz), 6 m, 2 m and 70 cm.

  • 100 W transmission power on the HF bands and 6m, 50 W on 2 m and 70 cm.
    All modes except (D) ATV.

Basic license A rearrangement of access to the bands compared to now

  • 80 m: unchanged

  • 40 m: unchanged

  • 30 m: 10 kHz extra (10.10-10.15 MHz instead of 10.11-10.15 MHz)

  • 20 m: 65 kHz extra (14.00-14.15 instead of 14.000-14.085 MHz, 14.25-14.35 MHz unchanged)

  • 17 m: no access (now 18.080-18.168 MHz)

  • 15 m: 40 kHz extra (21.00-21.10 MHz instead of 21.04-21.10 MHz, 21.32-21.45 MHz unchanged)

  • 12 m: no access (now 24.90-24.99 MHz)

  • 10 m: 40 kHz extra (28.00-29.70 MHz instead of 28.04-29.70 MHz)

  • 6 m: no access (now 50.128-52.000 MHz)

  • 2 m: unchanged

  • 70 cm: unchanged

  • 10 W transmission power, but the use of 100 W transceivers is still allowed.

All modes except (D) ATV.

The listed ratings are the average allowed power, the permissible peak power (PEP) is higher for CW and SSB:
10 W average power = 40 W PEP in SSB, 20 W PEP in CW, 10 W PEP in FM.
100 W average power = 400 W PEP in SSB, 200 W PEP in CW, 100 W PEP in FM.

The above is also just a PROPOSAL from BIPT. Before anything is changed, a public consultation will take place, where both recognized associations and individual radio amateurs can comment or submit alternative proposals.

However, the objective of the proposal must be maintained: there must be sufficient difference in the privileges of the basic permit, Novice permit and HAREC license so that there is an incentive for radio amateurs to continue growing.

Source UBA - https://tinyurl.com/BelgiumUBA