New German amateur regulations now in force

On Saturday 19th of February 2005, new German amateur radio regulations came into force. WRC 03 has been considered. There have been quite some changes in favour and not so much in favour for us. It has to be studied first to give more details. Here are the most relevant changes:

In Germany now there are only two classes of amateur radio licences. Class A (former class B and C or CEPT Class 1 or 2) and E (former class 3). The new class A applies to the HAREC certificate. Therefore longtime visitors or foreign residents with a CEPT licence will be issued a German A licence.

The former class D now class E is still limited to VHF/UHF only, but is now allowed 10 GHz. The output is limited to 10 W EIRP. There have been some changes to the spectrum allocation at 1.8 MHz as well.

The original text of the new regulations can be found at http://www.darc.de/aktuell/afuv.pdf

Thanks to Hans DF5UG, DARC IARU liaison

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