Christmas/New Year Operating Hours

The office will be closing at 12 Noon on Friday 24 December and reopening 9.00 am Tuesday 4 January 2022.

30 October 2020

Contact details of registered invigilators is temporarily unavailable as the Office of Maritime Communications is currently in the process of re-registering all invigilators.

During this time if you are seeking assistance with locating an invigilator, please contact the office on 1300 365 262 or email amcom@amc.edu.au

26 June 2020

New 2020 Edition of the Marine Radio Operators Handbook has just been released.

Changes to the handbook include:

• SMP
• Chapter 7 – EPRIBS
• Appendix 4 – VHF Transmitting Tables.

12 June 2020

As you are aware there is now a gradual relaxing of the COVID regulations for face to face examinations.

We are working with the University to develop a checklist as guidance to allow you to hold face to face examinations in premises for which there is a formal COVID Safe plan in place.

You will be notified when this has been signed off and the guidelines will be sent to you which should be in the next few days.

In the meantime the remote assessments remain in place and our thanks to those who have been conducting these.

29 May 2020

Marine Radio Examinations

We are seeking permission from the University to re-commence small group face to face examinations for marine radio, subject to a revised set of guidelines. We hope that permission will be granted shortly, but as this is an exception to our current guidelines, this will take a little time.

We understand that your local advice may be different, but as you will appreciate, we are the responsible body for the examinations. We thank you for your understanding; but for the time being please continue to conduct all exams remotely.

11 May 2020

Examinations

We note that circumstances are changing in the states, however we remain subject to the University of Tasmania guidance. Under this guidance all marine radio exams are to be conducted as remote exams until we are notified otherwise.

8 May 2020

Invigilator Re-registration

Please note that the current expiry date of 30^th June, 2020 has been extended to 30^th September 2020.

Re-registration paperwork will be forwarded by post in early August.

27 March 2020

Due to the current medical emergency all face-to-face examinations have been suspended.

If you wish to obtain a marine radio qualification, the Office of Maritime Communications is currently implementing a remote assessment process.

To register for a remote assessment, please email amcom@amc.edu.au

17 March 2020

Please be advised following the recent developments relating to COVID-19, the Office of Maritime Communications, under direction from the University of Tasmania policy, will cease all face to face teaching and related activities from Monday 23^rd March, this will include the Marine Radio invigilators.

No further face to face examinations are to be conducted from this date and no examination papers will be issued from the office.

All examinations received before the 23^rd March will be marked as per normal.

Our administrative teams are working both on and off campus which may also impact normal operating efficiency.

Thank you for your patience as we organise ourselves for this new normal.

Application Processing Times

Please remember that under our Deed of Agreement with the ACMA we have 15 working days to process a completed application. Usually we do much better than that (about 7 working days) depending on when your examination is received by the office. Certificates are printed on a Thursday, consequently completed applications received up until Wednesday will be in that week’s certificate print.

New Exams

If you have exams scheduled from 1 January 2020, please ensure that you have new exams in stock for use or place an order via the following link: Marine Radio Exam order form

Please note that the current SROCP and LROCP exams are due to expire on 31 December 2019 and should not be used after this date.

Application Processing Times

Please remember that under our Deed of Agreement with the ACMA we have 15 working days to process a completed application. Usually we do much better than that (about 7 working days) depending on when your examination is received by the office. Certificates are printed on a Thursday, consequently completed applications received up until Wednesday will be in that week’s certificate print.

Christmas/New Year Operating Hours

The office will be closing at 12 Noon on Tuesday 24 December and reopening 9.00 am Thursday 2 January 2020.

New Exams

If you have exams scheduled from 1 January 2020, please ensure that you have new exams in stock for use or place an order via the following link: Marine Radio Exam order form

Please note that the current SROCP and LROCP exams are due to expire on 31 December 2019 and should not be used after this date.

Application Processing Times

Please remember that under our Deed of Agreement with the ACMA we have 15 working days to process a completed application. Usually we do much better than that (about 7 working days) depending on when your examination is received by the office. Certificates are printed on a Thursday, consequently completed applications received up until Wednesday will be in that week’s certificate print.