Big Red Expeditions wrote:
Class Licence 2002
Part 2 UHF
Operation of a CB station must only employ FM or PM with a transmitter power not exceeding 5 watts pZ with a necessary bandwidth not exceeding 16 kHz.
That's true for holders of the CB "Class" Licence which is the licence given to all users of CB equipment. There is no cost for the Class Licence, and no forms to fill out, and it is a default license under which all CB users operate *if* they have no other qualification.
The holder of a "Standard" Amateur license is able to broadcast on a whole range of frequencies (not just UHF CB, for example) at up to 100W and an "Advanced" Amateur license can broadcast on even more frequencies up to 400w! An Ameteur License supercedes a Class License which is given to the equipment, not the individual.
I dunno where where you got bit of info but unless the regs have changed it the last few weeks I doubt its validity.<p>
Radiocommunications Licence Conditions (Amateur Licence) Determination No. 1 of 1997, gives the amateur 70cm band as 420.000 to 450.000 Mhz. The only item not in these is the administrative conditions re the morse test. (which was not all that hard). There is nothing in the regulations about operating on CB frequencies.
There is not such thing as an advanced amateur licence in Australia. There is a novice and and an unrestricted licence. The novice licence allows operating on segments of the 3.5, 21. 28,144,and 430 Mhz bands. The unrestricted licence allows high power all mode on all amateur bands.
The CB bands are not mentioned.
High power, wiithout a special permit, is 120W DC input to the final or 400W PEP for C3F (video), J3E (ssb, suppressed carrier ) and R3E (ssb, reduced carrier) transmissions, it does not mean 400W up the stick for FM.
A holder of a novice licence is allowed 10 Watts max output.