• Only people with Advanced Qualifications can make their own radios - Basic with Honours or Basic cannot tinker with electrical equipment
• Your license must be kept at the address you provide to ISED
• You need to notify ISED if you operate a ham radio station at another location, however operation anywhere in Canada is legal
• An amateur radio station may only transmit encoded messages in two-way communication when encoding or cipher is publically provided
• Amateur radio certificate is free
• Control operator: the person using the ham radio
• Station owner: the person who owns the equipment being used
• 430MHz to 450MHz are for emergency communications??
• 902 to 928 MHz is often the frequency for RC devices and cell phones
• AROs must identify themselves with their call sign at the beginning and end of every transmission, and at 30 minute intervals
• Call signs in Canada start with VA/VE/VO/VY
• Call signs in general look like VA1XYZ or VA2XY
• No limits to power output for stations in distress, but they may only use a band that they are authorized to use