[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR74.482]

[Page 435-436]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 74_EXPERIMENTAL RADIO, AUXILIARY, SPECIAL BROADCAST AND OTHER PROGRAM 
 
               Subpart D_Remote Pickup Broadcast Stations
 
Sec.  74.482  Station identification.

    (a) Each remote pickup broadcast station shall be identified by the 
transmission of the assigned station or system call sign, or by the call 
sign of the associated broadcast station. For systems, the licensee 
(including those operating pursuant to Sec.  74.24 of this part) shall 
assign a unit designator to each station in the system. The call sign 
(and unit designator, where appropriate) shall be transmitted at the 
beginning and end of each period of operation. A period of operation may 
consist of a single continuous transmission, or a series of intermittent

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transmissions pertaining to a single event.
    (b) In cases where a period of operation is of more than one hour 
duration identification of remote pickup broadcast stations 
participating in the operation shall be made at approximately one-hour 
intervals. Identification transmissions during operation need not be 
made when to make such transmissions would interrupt a single 
consecutive speech, play, religious service, symphony, concert, or any 
type of production. In such cases, the identification transmissions 
shall be made at the first interruption in the program continuity and at 
the conclusion thereof. Hourly identification may be accomplished either 
by transmission of the station or system call sign and unit designator 
assigned to the individual station or identification of an associated 
broadcasting station or network with which the remote pickup broadcast 
station is being used.
    (c) In cases where an automatic relay station is a part of the 
circuit, the call sign of the relay transmitter may be transmitted 
automatically by the relay transmitter or by the remote pickup broadcast 
base or mobile station that actuates the automatic relay station.
    (d) Automatically activated equipment may be used to transmit 
station identification in International Morse Code, provided that the 
modulation tone is 1200 Hz800 Hz, the level of 
modulation of the identification signal is maintained at 40%10%, and that the code transmission rate is maintained 
between 20 and 25 words per minute.
    (e) For stations using F1E or G1E emissions, identification shall be 
transmitted in the unscrambled analog (F3E) mode or in International 
Morse Code pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (d) of this section 
at intervals not to exceed 15 minutes. For purposes of rule enforcement, 
all licensees using F1E or G1E emissions shall provide, upon request by 
the Commission, a full and complete description of the encoding 
methodology they currently use.

    Note: Stations are encouraged to identify using their associated 
part 73 station call sign.

[41 FR 29686, July 19, 1976, as amended at 47 FR 9220, Mar. 4, 1982; 52 
FR 47569, Dec. 15, 1987; 56 FR 28499, June 21, 1991; 68 FR 12766, Mar. 
17, 2003]