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FCC 80.1119
Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 80.1119 Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by coast stations
and coast earth stations.
(a) Coast stations that receive a distress alert should defer
acknowledgement for a short interval so that receipt may be acknowledged by
a Rescue Coordination Center. Where an acknowledgement is not forthcoming
within 3 minutes, the coast station in receipt of distress alerts must
ensure that they are routed to a Rescue Coordination Center as soon as
possible. Coast stations must provide assistance for distress communications
when requested to do so by the U.S. Coast Guard. (This subpart does not
specify any radio watches for coast stations.)
(b) Coast earth stations in receipt of distress alerts must ensure that they
are routed as soon as possible to a Rescue Coordination Center. Coast earth
stations must relay, as soon as possible, an acknowledgement of a distress
alert from a Rescue Coordination Center.
(c) Certain messages must be carried without charge, regardless of the means
by which they are transmitted:
(1) Distress alert messages;
(2) Search and rescue coordination messages;
(3) Medical assistance messages where an imminent danger to life is present,
or
(4) Urgent meteorological or navigational danger messages passed in the
ship-to-shore direction.
Goto Section: 80.1117 | 80.1121
Goto Year: 2006 |
2008
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