The Basic lessons · Regulations and policies · B-001-010

Managing Interference and Frequency Rights

Learn why causing interference is never acceptable and how to share frequencies fairly. Understand the difference between primary and secondary users, and which bands require extra caution.

This lesson is part of SignalPrep Pro. The subsection's 10 exam questions are free to practise: practise B-001-010.

What this subsection asks

• What is a transmission that disturbs other communications called?
• When may you deliberately interfere with another amateur radio station's communications?
• If the regulations say that the amateur radio service is a secondary user of a frequency band, and another service is a primary user, what does this mean?
• What rule applies if two amateur radio operators want to use the same frequency?
• What name is given to a form of interference that seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radiocommunication service?
• In the event the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry determines that an amateur radio station causes harmful interference, what are the Minister's powers?
• Amateur radio operation must not cause interference to other radio services operating in which of the following bands?
• Amateur radio operations are NOT protected from interference caused by another service operating in which of the following frequency bands?
• Under what circumstances may the operator of an amateur radio station conduct test transmissions?
• Which of these amateur radio bands may be heavily occupied by licence-exempt devices?