FCC 80.475 Revised as of October 1, 2007
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Sec. 80.475 Scope of service of the Automated Maritime Telecommunications System
(AMTS).
(a) A separate Form 601 is not required for each coast station in a system.
However, except as provided in Sec. 80.385(b) and paragraph (b) of this section,
the applicant must provide the technical characteristics for each proposed
coast station, including transmitter type, operating frequencies, emissions,
transmitter output power, antenna arrangement, and location.
(1) Applicants proposing to locate a coast station transmitter within 169
kilometers (105 miles) of a channel 13 TV station or within 129 kilometers
(80 miles) of a channel 10 TV station or with an antenna height greater than
61 meters (200 feet), must submit an engineering study clearly showing the
means of avoiding interference with television reception within the grade B
contour, see Sec. 80.215(h) of this chapter, unless the proposed station's
predicted interference contour is fully encompassed by the composite
interference contour of the applicant's existing system, or the proposed
station's predicted interference contour extends the system's composite
interference contour over water only (disregarding uninhabited islands).
(2) Additionally, applicants required to submit the above specified must
give written notice of the filing of such applications(s) to the television
stations which may be affected. A list of the notified television stations
must be submitted with the subject applications.
(b) Coast stations for which the above specified need not be submitted
because the proposed station's predicted interference contour is fully
encompassed by the composite interference contour of the applicant's
existing system or the proposed station's predicted interference contour
extends the system's composite interference contour over water only
(disregarding uninhabited islands) must, at least 15 days before the station
is put into operation, give written notice to the television stations which
may be affected of the proposed station's technical characteristics, the
date it will be put into operation, and the licensee's representative (name
and phone number) to contact in the event a television station experiences
interference. No prior FCC authorization is required to construct and
operate such a station, but, at the time the station is added, the AMTS
licensee must make a record of the technical and administrative information
concerning the station and, upon request, supply such information to the
FCC. In addition, when the station is added, the AMTS licensee must send
notification of the station's location to the American Radio Relay League,
Inc., 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111–1494, and Interactive Systems,
Inc., Suite 1103, 1601 North Kent Street, Arlington, VA 22209.
(c) An AMTS system may provide private mobile radio service in addition to
or instead of public correspondence service. However, such communications
may be provided only to stations whose licensees make cooperative
arrangements with the AMTS coast station licensees. In emergency and
distress situations, services must be provided to ship stations without
prior arrangements.
(d) AMTS systems providing private mobile radio service instead of, or in
addition to, public correspondence service are not required to be
interconnected to the public switched network when providing such private
mobile radio service. AMTS systems providing public correspondence service
must be interconnected to the public switched network, but the licensee may
also offer non-interconnected services.
[ 51 FR 31213 , Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 52 FR 35245 , Sept. 18, 1987; 56 FR 3783 , Jan. 31, 1991; 65 FR 77826 , Dec. 13, 2000; 67 FR 48567 , July 25,
2002; 69 FR 19948 , Apr. 15, 2004; 72 FR 31194 , June 6, 2007]
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