NOTE: Parts below, in this colour, are from the licence
Also as you are progressing from the Intermediate level the 50mW restriction does not apply at FULL LEVEL LICENCE !!! but there are conditions.
1E1 Recall that the Licensee may use any communication link for the purpose of Remote Control of the main station.
The Licensee may conduct Unattended Operation of Radio Equipment provided that any such operation is consistent with the terms of this Licence. Additional restrictions which apply to the Unattended Operation of Beacons are specified in this Licence.
You will need to know where the Interpretation and Notes to the Licence which are towards the back.
For instance in the notes it says The Unattended operation of Beacons is only permitted ..... (it is left for you to read up on that)
Also Beacons may operate with a maximum power level of ..... (again you need to read up on that ) if you do not check this out then you have the chance of losing marks.
"Unattended Operation" means the operation of Radio Equipment by the Licensee when the Licensee is in a different location to that where the Radio Equipment is located.
Recall that if the Remote Control link is in an amateur band that the licence requirements for the link are the same as the requirements for the main station.
The Licensee may also conduct Remote Control Operation of Radio Equipment (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Beacons) provided that any such operation is consistent with the terms of this Licence. BUT This Clause does not permit the Licensee to install Radio Equipment capable of Remote Control Operation for general unsupervised use by other Amateurs.
"Unwanted Emissions" means spurious emissions and out-of-band emissions as defined in the Radio Regulations;
Whilst the above allows certain operation this Clause does not permit the Licensee to install Radio Equipment capable of Remote Control Operation for general unsupervised use by other Amateurs.
Recall that a link in an amateur band should be above 30MHz
Any communication links used to control the Radio Equipment or to carry Messages to or from the Radio Equipment must be adequately secure so as to ensure compliance with of this Licence.
The use of any such communication links referred to must be failsafe such that any failure will not result in unintended transmissions or any transmissions of a type not permitted by this Licence.
If this Licence is a Foundation Licence or an Intermediate Licence, and the Licensee wishes to establish communication links to operate the Radio Equipment then the Licensee may only do so using wireless communication links and the Licensee may only use the amateur band allocations detailed to operate those links. Any such communications links shall be subject to a maximum power level of 500 mW pep e.r.p.
Only where this Licence is a Full Licence, Full (Reciprocal) Licence, Full (Temporary Reciprocal) Licence or a Full (Club) Licence, the Licensee may make use of any communications links (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the amateur band allocations detailed in the Schedule to establish the wireless communication links referred.
Recall that a link in an amateur band must not be encrypted
The Licensee shall only address Messages to other Amateurs or to the stations of those Amateurs and shall not encrypt these Messages for the purpose of rendering the Message unintelligible to other radio spectrum users.
The origin of some of the text on this page is from the RSGB and OFCOM with additions by the web master