National Regulations and Guidelines

Maritime Mobile

  • An amateur station operating on water – whether at sea or on any waterway / river / lake – is considered to be a maritime mobile station, and is subject to the following additional provisions …
  • Approval to operate is required from the Ship’s Master and / or owner
  • The call sign must be suffixed by ‘/MM’ (“slash maritime mobile”)
  • The particulars of the mobile station’s geographic position must be sent at the beginning and end of a contact with each station or at intervals of 30 minutes whichever is the more frequent.  This geographic position must be included in the logbook when recording communications
  • The amateur station cannot be used for the sending or receipt of any message which would, if there were no amateur station on the vessel, be sent by means of the vessel’s wireless telegraphy station
  • The amateur station must not interfere with the wireless telegraphy station on the vessel.  Should such interference occur, use of the amateur station must cease until the cause of the interference has been remedied
  • Note that maritime mobile operation is not permitted on the 1.8 Mhz, 10 MHz, 50 MHz, 70 MHz or 430 MHz bands – see Operational Bands
  • The power limit for Maritime Mobile stations on all permitted bands is 10W (10 dBW)