[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 47, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 47CFR95.193]



[Page 519-520]

 

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

 

        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 95_PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

                  Subpart B_Family Radio Service (FRS)

 

Sec.  95.193  (FRS Rule 3) Types of communications.



    (a) You may use an FRS unit to conduct two-way voice communications 

with another person. You may use an FRS unit to transmit one-way voice 

or non-voice communications only to establish communications with 

another person, send an emergency message, provide traveler assistance, 

provide location information, transmit a brief



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text message, make a voice page, or to conduct a brief test.

    (b) Non-voice communications. (1) The FRS unit may transmit tones to 

make contact or to continue communications with a particular FRS unit. 

If the tone is audible (more than 300 Hertz), it must be transmitted 

continuously no longer than 15 seconds at one time. If the tone is 

subaudible (300 Hertz or less), it may be transmitted continuously only 

while you are talking.

    (2) The FRS unit may transmit digital data containing location 

information, or requesting location information from one or more other 

FRS units, or containing a brief text message to another specific FRS 

unit. Digital data transmissions must be initiated by a manual action or 

command of a user, except that an FRS unit receiving an interrogation 

request may automatically respond with its location. Digital data 

transmissions shall not exceed one second, and shall be limited to no 

more than one digital transmission within a thirty-second period, except 

that an FRS unit may automatically respond to more than one 

interrogation request received within a thirty-second period.

    (c) You must not use an FRS unit in connection with any activity 

which is against federal, state or local law.

    (d) You must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to 

emergency communication messages concerning the immediate safety of life 

or the immediate protection of property.

    (e) No FRS unit may be interconnected to the public switched 

network.



[61 FR 28768, June 6, 1996, as amended at 68 FR 9901, Mar. 3, 2003]