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FCC 97.119
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 97.119 Station identification.
(a) Each amateur station, except a space station or telecommand station,
must transmit its assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at the end
of each communication, and at least every 10 minutes during a communication,
for the purpose of clearly making the source of the transmissions from the
station known to those receiving the transmissions. No station may transmit
unidentified communications or signals, or transmit as the station call
sign, any call sign not authorized to the station.
(b) The call sign must be transmitted with an emission authorized for the
transmitting channel in one of the following ways:
(1) By a CW emission. When keyed by an automatic device used only for
identification, the speed must not exceed 20 words per minute;
(2) By a phone emission in the English language. Use of a phonetic alphabet
as an aid for correct station identification is encouraged;
(3) By a RTTY emission using a specified digital code when all or part of
the communications are transmitted by a RTTY or data emission;
(4) By an image emission conforming to the applicable transmission
standards, either color or monochrome, of Sec. 73.682(a) of the FCC Rules when
all or part of the communications are transmitted in the same image emission
(c) One or more indicators may be included with the call sign. Each
indicator must be separated from the call sign by the slant mark (/) or by
any suitable word that denotes the slant mark. If an indicator is
self-assigned, it must be included before, after, or both before and after,
the call sign. No self-assigned indicator may conflict with any other
indicator specified by the FCC Rules or with any prefix assigned to another
country.
(d) When transmitting in conjunction with an event of special significance,
a station may substitute for its assigned call sign a special event call
sign as shown for that station for that period of time on the common data
base coordinated, maintained and disseminated by the special event call sign
data base coordinators. Additionally, the station must transmit its assigned
call sign at least once per hour during such transmissions.
(e) When the operator license class held by the control operator exceeds
that of the station licensee, an indicator consisting of the call sign
assigned to the control operator's station must be included after the call
sign.
(f) When the control operator is a person who is exercising the rights and
privileges authorized by Sec. 97.9(b) of this part, an indicator must be
included after the call sign as follows:
(1) For a control operator who has requested a license modification from
Novice Class to Technical Class: KT;
(2) For a control operator who has requested a license modification from
Novice, Technician, or Technician Plus Class to General Class: AG;
(3) For a control operator who has requested a license modification from
Novice, Technician, Technician Plus, General, or Advanced Class to Amateur
Extra Class: AE.
(g) When the station is transmitting under the authority of Sec. 97.107 of this
part, an indicator consisting of the appropriate letter-numeral designating
the station location must be included before the call sign that was issued
to the station by the country granting the license. For an amateur service
license granted by the Government of Canada, however, the indicator must be
included after the call sign. At least once during each intercommunication,
the identification announcement must include the geographical location as
nearly as possible by city and state, commonwealth or possession.
[ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at 54 FR 39535 , Sept. 27, 1989; 55 FR 30457 , July 26, 1990; 56 FR 28 , Jan. 2, 1991; 62 FR 17567 , Apr. 10, 1997;
63 FR 68980 , Dec. 14, 1998; 64 FR 51471 , Sept. 23, 1999; 66 FR 20752 , Apr.
25, 2001]
Goto Section: 97.117 | 97.121
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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