Congratulations! You were given a form at the end of your exam. Your first operator’s certificate is included in the price of the exam.
Now, you will have to choose a call sign.
If you have your own equipment, you will also need a station authorisation for it.
Attention: you must first have your operator’s certificate and/or authorisation before being allowed to emit and/or possess radio equipment.
Congratulations! You will receive your certificate via ordinary mail.
You must send us your station authorisation back so that we can deactivate it and so that your vessel can be deleted from international databases.
Please send it to:
BIPT Maritime Department Boulevard du Roi Albert II 32 box 10 1000 Brussels
Whoever unexpectedly acquires a station, without being personally authorised to possess or use it, has, from the moment he/she comes into possession of the station, a maximum period of sixty days to apply for a holder’s and operator’s authorisation for that radio station, or only one possession authorisation.
Parcel at the front door
Parcel delivered to the neighbours
Note in the letterbox
Yes, it is. An application form is available. The aeronautical authorisation is charged: € 23,07 to pay on the account of BIPT: IBAN BE68 6791 7078 1634 (BIC : PCHQBEBB), with the reference “Aeronautical authorisation”.
You must enclose:
Please note that you can not use that authorisation on the ground. You must always use the call sign of the aircraft containing the portable radio. Your radio must bear the CE marking and must be accompanied by the EU declaration of conformity. It must also operate on 8.33 kHz.
Yes, provided that the mobile service suffers an interruption of at least 8 consecutive hours at the known billing address.
When a mobile antenna is down, that does not automatically mean that there was no coverage during at least 8 hours. For a big part of the territory is covered by more than one antenna.
In case of a prepaid card, the end-user has to request the compensation himself.
Yes, however, you must apply for a special authorisation. You will find more information on the page Professional users – Mobile networks
Both. An aeronautical authorisation is required when airborne but a maritime authorisation is required when on water. Furthermore, it can use a PLB: a device which can be activated by the user in case of emergency. That type of device is not subject to an authorisation in Belgium, provided that it is registered by the user via www.406registration.com.
We will contact you via ordinary mail before the expiration date.
Make sure to always report any change in your contact details to us (according to regulation your data must always be up to date).
However, if BIPT has not contacted you two weeks before the expiration date, please contact us as soon as possible