Antenna Location

• ISED, often also called Minister of Industry in the test, has rules and exceptions that take priority over any local authorities such as municipalities and organizations
• Organizations and municipalities can have rules but they must have a proper process documented to enforce these rules and the rules must be in line with ISED
• Local consultation process:
  • You do not have to attend public meetings as a ham radio operator
  • You are required to:
    • Address relevant and reasonable concerns given in writing within a 30 day public comment period
  • You don’t have to talk to local authorities if there is an ISED exclusion or within the local authorities’ own rules
  • If a local rule is less restrictive than ISED, local rule applies

Safety/Radiation Limits

• Health Canada sets rules for safe radiation exposure in Safety Code 6: Exposure Limits (for RF exposure on all transmitters such as contact currents, induced currents, magnetic, etc)
• Greatest risk is between 30-300MHz because you absorb the most energy in these ranges
• Health Canada does not specify power limits
• Risk does not decrease below 10MHz
• Allowable exposure is much higher from 300MHz-1.5GHz
• Emissions Interference:
  • Covered by EMCAB 2: rules for non-radio receiver equipment that is affected by radio waves
    • I.e. non-radios that receive signals, but are affected by RF
  • All gear must meet some minimum immunity requirements from external RF, but your gear cannot be transmitting above a certain level of interference itself