[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 47CFR97.111]



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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 97_AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents

 

                  Subpart B_Station Operation Standards

 

Sec. 97.111  Authorized transmissions.



    (a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way 

communications:

    (1) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with other stations 

in the amateur service, except those in any country whose administration 

has given notice that it objects to such communications. The FCC will 

issue public notices of current arrangements for international 

communications;

    (2) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in 

another FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;

    (3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a United 

States government station, necessary to providing communications in 

RACES; and

    (4) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in a 

service not regulated by the FCC, but authorized by the FCC to 

communicate with amateur stations. An amateur station may exchange 

messages with a participating United States military station during an 

Armed Forces Day Communications Test.

    (b) In addition to one-way transmissions specifically authorized 

elsewhere in this part, an amateur station may transmit the following 

types of one-way communications:

    (1) Brief transmissions necessary to make adjustments to the 

station;

    (2) Brief transmissions necessary to establishing two-way 

communications with other stations;

    (3) Telecommand;

    (4) Transmissions necessary to providing emergency communications;



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    (5) Transmissions necessary to assisting persons learning, or 

improving proficiency in, the international Morse code; and

    (6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information bulletins.

    (7) Transmissions of telemetry.



[54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989, as amended at 56 FR 56171, Nov. 1, 1991]