Goto Section: 80.1105 | 80.1111 | Table of Contents
FCC 80.1109
Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 80.1109 Distress, urgency, and safety communications.
(a) Distress traffic consists of all messages relating to the immediate
assistance required by the ship in distress, including search and rescue
communications and on-scene communications. Distress traffic must as far as
possible be on the frequencies contained in Sec. 80.1077.
(b) Urgency and safety communications include: navigational and
meteorological warnings and urgent information; ship-to-ship safety
navigation communications; ship reporting communications; support
communications for search and rescue operations; other urgency and safety
messages and communications relating to the navigation, movements and needs
of ships and weather observation messages destined for an official
meteorological service.
(c) Intership navigation safety communications are those VHF radiotelephone
communications conducted between ships for the purpose of contributing to
the safe movement of ships. The frequency 156.650 MHz is used for intership
navigation safety communications (see Sec. 80.1077).
Goto Section: 80.1105 | 80.1111
Goto Year: 2006 |
2008
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