[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: 47CFR97.113]



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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 97_AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents

 

                  Subpart B_Station Operation Standards

 

Sec. 97.113  Prohibited transmissions.



    (a) No amateur station shall transmit:

    (1) Communications specifically prohibited elsewhere in this part;

    (2) Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or 

indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules;

    (3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator 

has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an 

employer. Amateur operators may, however, notify other amateur operators 

of the availability for sale or trade of apparatus normally used in an 

amateur station, provided that such activity is not conducted on a 

regular basis;

    (4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided 

elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a 

criminal act; messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure the 

meaning thereof, except as otherwise provided herein; obscene or 

indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or 

identification;

    (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be 

furnished alternatively through other radio services.

    (b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, 

nor may an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as 

specifically provided in these rules; nor shall an amateur station 

engage in any activity related to program production or news gathering 

for broadcasting purposes, except that communications directly related 

to the immediate safety of human life or the protection of property may 

be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the 

public where no other means of communication is reasonably available 

before or at the time of the event.

    (c) A control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a 

teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used 

by that teacher as a part of classroom instruction at an educational 

institution.

    (d) The control operator of a club station may accept compensation 

for the periods of time when the station is transmitting telegraphy 

practice or information bulletins, provided that the station transmits 

such telegraphy practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours per week; 

schedules operations on at least six amateur service MF and HF bands 

using reasonable measures to maximize coverage; where the schedule of 

normal operating times and frequencies is published at least 30 days in 

advance of the actual transmissions; and where the control operator does 

not accept any direct or indirect compensation for any other service as 

a control operator.

    (e) No station shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from 

any type of radio station other than an amateur station, except 

propagation and weather forecast information intended for use by the 

general public and originated from United States Government stations and 

communications, including incidental music, originating on United States 

Government frequencies between a space shuttle and its associated Earth 

stations. Prior approval for shuttle retransmissions must be obtained 

from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Such 

retransmissions must be for the exclusive use of amateur operators. 

Propagation, weather forecasts, and shuttle retransmissions may not be 

conducted on a regular basis, but only occasionally, as an incident of 

normal amateur radio communications.

    (f) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater, or space 

station, may automatically retransmit the radio signals of other amateur 

station.



[58 FR 43072, Aug. 13, 1993; 58 FR 47219, Sept. 8, 1993]