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B-001-13: Station identification, call signs, prefixes

B-001-13-01: Which of the following call signs is a valid Canadian amateur radio callsign?

VA3XYZ

SM2CAN

BY7HY

KA9OLS



B-001-13-02: How often must an amateur station be identified?

At least every thirty minutes, and at the beginning and at the end of a contact

At the beginning of a contact and at least every thirty minutes after that

At least once during each transmission

At the beginning and end of each transmission



B-001-13-03: What do you transmit to identify your amateur station?

Your call sign

Your "handle"

Your first name and your location

Your full name



B-001-13-04: What identification, if any, is required when two amateur stations begin communications?

Each station must transmit its own call sign

No identification is required

Both stations must transmit both call signs

One of the stations must give both stations' call signs



B-001-13-05: What identification, if any, is required when two amateur stations end communications?

Each station must transmit its own call sign

No identification is required

One of the stations must transmit both stations' call signs

Both stations must transmit both call signs



B-001-13-06: What is the longest period of time an amateur station can operate, without transmitting its call sign?

30 minutes

20 minutes

15 minutes

10 minutes



B-001-13-07: When may an amateur transmit unidentified communications?

Never, except to control a model craft

Only for brief tests not meant as messages

Only if it does not interfere with others

Only for two-way or third-party communications



B-001-13-08: What language may you use when identifying your station?

English or French

Any language being used for a contact

Any language being used for a contact, providing Canada has a third-party communications agreement with that country

Any language of a country which is a member of the International Telecommunication Union



B-001-13-09: The call sign of an amateur station must be transmitted:

at the beginning and at the end of each exchange of communications and at intervals not greater than 30 minutes

at intervals not greater than three minutes when using voice communications

at intervals not greater than ten minutes when using Morse code

when requested to do so by the station being called



B-001-13-10: The call sign of an amateur station must be sent:

at the beginning and end of each exchange of communications, and at least every 30 minutes, while in communications

every minute

every 15 minutes

once after initial contact



B-001-13-11: The call sign of a Canadian amateur radio station would normally start with the letters:

VA, VE, VO or VY

GA, GE, MO or VQ

A, K, N or W

EA, EI, RO or UY





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