[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR97.111]

[Page 594-595]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 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 
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the amateur service, except those in any country whose administration 
has notified the ITU that it objects to such communications. The FCC 
will issue public notices of current arrangements for international 
communications.
    (2) Transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs 
and to facilitate relief actions.
    (3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in 
another FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;
    (4) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a United 
States government station, necessary to providing communications in 
RACES; and
    (5) 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;
    (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; 71 
FR 25982, May 3, 2006; 71 FR 66462, Nov. 15, 2006]