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without pecuniary interest.", "scope_statement": "This model owns amateur radio as a practice of personal radio communication, technical investigation and self-training, including its operators, station use, contacts and operating communities; it distinguishes that practice from radio equipment itself and from other radio services.", "in_scope": [ "Activity purpose and its fit with amateur-radio practice", "Operator and station authorisation in the relevant jurisdiction", "Station configuration, transmission readiness and interference management", "Band, mode and propagation choices for intended contacts", "Contact procedures, experimentation, logging and community participation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Radio equipment design and manufacturing as independent products", "Commercial broadcasting and professional telecommunications service delivery", "Citizens band, personal radio and other separately governed radio services", "Spectrum administration as an institutional process", "Emergency management and incident command beyond the amateur-radio contribution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Classify the activity by its purpose and service context, rather than assuming that any use of a transceiver is amateur radio.", "Determine whether the operator is communicating, training or experimenting within an amateur-radio framework; equipment capable of receiving amateur bands is insufficient evidence.", "Distinguish amateur-radio contacts from broadcasting intended for a general audience, while recording any locally permitted special transmission activities separately.", "Distinguish amateur-radio public-service participation from professional emergency communications by recording the operator's role, authority and relationship to the responsible organisation.", "Treat amateur-satellite operation as a related operating context whose applicable service rules must be checked, rather than assuming every terrestrial permission transfers unchanged." ], 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"Operator, station identifier or callsign, responsible person and any supervision arrangement", "why_it_matters": "Shared and remotely controlled stations can separate the person operating from the station's accountable identity." }, { "name": "Operating frequency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hz, with occupied frequency range where known", "why_it_matters": "The full transmitted signal must be considered when assessing band fit and coexistence." }, { "name": "Emission mode and occupied bandwidth", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Mode or emission designation, with occupied bandwidth in Hz", "why_it_matters": "Voice, Morse, image and data operation create different compatibility and operating requirements." }, { "name": "Transmit power", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "W, specifying measurement point and whether mean, peak-envelope or another defined power measure", "why_it_matters": "Unqualified power figures are insufficient for comparing station settings with technical or regulatory constraints." }, { "name": "Propagation path", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "direct terrestrial | ionospheric | repeater-assisted | satellite | Earth-Moon-Earth | other documented path", "why_it_matters": "Path choice affects timing, antenna requirements and the feasibility of the intended contact." }, { "name": "Station readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "receive-only ready | transmit-ready for stated configuration | restricted | faulted | unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Readiness is specific to a configuration and operating context, rather than a permanent property of a station." }, { "name": "Contact outcome", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "attempted | one-way reception | partial exchange | completed exchange | independently confirmed | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Hearing a signal, exchanging information and obtaining confirmation are different outcomes." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a proposed radio activity and identify unresolved service-boundary questions.", "Compare a proposed transmission with documented operator, station and location-specific permissions.", "Prepare a station-readiness assessment for a stated band, mode, antenna and power setting.", "Select candidate operating windows and propagation paths while expressing uncertainty about contact success.", "Guide contact, net or experimental procedures and record the resulting evidence.", "Diagnose unsuccessful contacts or interference reports and propose bounded corrective checks." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "purpose-and-service-boundary", "name": "Purpose and service boundary", "description": "Establishes what the activity is trying to achieve and why it belongs within amateur radio.", "rationale": "Radio hardware and frequencies alone do not identify the practice or settle whether a proposed use fits it.", "layers": [ { "id": "activity-purpose", "name": "Activity purpose", "description": "Records the 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club membership with transmitting authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the participant listening, transmitting, supervising, experimenting or maintaining shared infrastructure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "participant-role-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed actions require evidence beyond participation in the amateur-radio community?", "kind": "action", "id": "participant-role-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorisation-and-accountability", "name": "Authorisation and accountability", "description": "Connects proposed operation to documented permissions and responsible people.", "rationale": "An amateur station may operate under different conditions when moved, shared, remotely controlled or used under supervision.", "layers": [ { "id": "operating-permissions", "name": "Operating permissions", "description": "Records the jurisdiction, current evidence and scope of authority for the specific operation.", "findings": [ { "id": "permission-envelope", "name": "Permission envelope", "description": "Assess permission against location, date, operator status, frequency, emission and power rather than a single licensed flag.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authoritative records establish permission for this operator and station at the proposed location and date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "permission-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the proposed frequency, mode, power and control arrangement are verified, restricted or unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permission-envelope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "station-control", "name": "Station control", "description": "Records identification, supervision and responsibility for starting and stopping transmissions.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsible-control", "name": "Responsible control", "description": "Make the relationship between operator, station identity and controlling person explicit, especially for club and remote stations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is accountable for transmissions, and what 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"measurement", "id": "transmission-readiness-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What checks or restrictions follow from unresolved RF exposure, electrical, antenna-support or interference concerns at this site?", "kind": "action", "id": "transmission-readiness-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "propagation-and-contact-execution", "name": "Propagation and contact execution", "description": "Links the intended correspondent and exchange to a feasible path and operating procedure.", "rationale": "A correctly configured station can still fail to make contact because propagation, timing, mode or access procedures do not align.", "layers": [ { "id": "path-feasibility", "name": "Path feasibility", "description": "Records the proposed path and the evidence supporting a band, antenna direction and operating window.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-opportunity", "name": "Contact opportunity", "description": "Represent contact feasibility as an evidence-based estimate whose assumptions may change 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a amateur radio is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a amateur radio, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a amateur radio, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", 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amateur radio, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a amateur radio is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a amateur radio consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a amateur radio takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a amateur radio, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values 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is amateur radio operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of amateur radio and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of amateur radio?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": 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