Goto Section: 97.109 | 97.113 | Table of Contents

FCC 97.111
Revised as of September 29, 2014
Goto Year:2013 | 2015
§ 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 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]

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Goto Section: 97.109 | 97.113

Goto Year: 2013 | 2015
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