The Basic lessons · Regulations and policies · B-001-008

Where You Can Operate and What You Can Build

This lesson explains where your amateur radio certificate is valid in Canada and clarifies which qualifications allow you to build, install, or operate specific types of stations. You will learn the difference between basic operation and the advanced skills needed for complex installations like repeaters and custom transmitters.

This lesson is part of SignalPrep Pro. The subsection's 8 exam questions are free to practise: practise B-001-008.

What this subsection asks

• Where may holders of an Amateur Radio Operator Certificate operate an amateur radio station in Canada?
• Which type of station may transmit one-way communications?
• What minimum qualifications must an amateur radio operator hold to assemble commercially available transmitter kits of professional design?
• What minimum qualifications must an amateur radio operator hold to install a repeater operating on a single band in a voice mode?
• What minimum qualifications must an amateur radio operator hold to install an amateur radio club station?
• What minimum qualifications must an amateur radio operator hold to install or operate a transmitter or RF amplifier that is neither professionally designed nor commercially manufactured for use in the amateur radio service?
• What minimum qualifications must an amateur radio operator hold to operate cross-band repeaters?
• What minimum qualifications must an amateur radio operator hold to remotely operate a transmitter, including changing frequency, emission mode or output power?