§  97.313   Transmitter power standards.

   (a) An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary
   to carry out the desired communications.

   (b) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 1.5 kW
   PEP.

   (c) No station may transmit with a transmitter power output exceeding
   200 W PEP:

   (1) On the 10.10-10.15 MHz segment;

   (2) On the 3.525-3.60 MHz, 7.025-7.125 MHz, 21.025-21.20 MHz, and
   28.0-28.5 MHz segment when the control operator is a Novice Class,
   Technician Class, or Technician Plus Class operator; or

   (3) The 7.050-7.075 MHz segment when the station is within ITU Regions
   1 or 3.

   (d) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 25 W PEP
   on the VHF 1.25 m band when the control operator is a Novice operator.

   (e) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 5 W PEP
   on the UHF 23 cm band when the control operator is a Novice operator.

   (f) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 50 W PEP
   on the UHF 70 cm band from an area specified in footnote US7 to § 2.106
   of part 2, unless expressly authorized by the FCC after mutual
   agreement, on a case-by-case basis, between the District Director of
   the applicable field facility and the military area frequency
   coordinator at the applicable military base. An Earth station or
   telecommand station, however, may transmit on the 435-438 MHz segment
   with a maximum of 611 W effective radiated power (1 kW equivalent
   isotropically radiated power) without the authorization otherwise
   required. The transmitting antenna elevation angle between the lower
   half-power ( -3 dB relative to the peak or antenna bore sight) point
   and the horizon must always be greater than 10DEG.

   (g) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 50 W PEP
   on the 33 cm band from within 241 km of the boundaries of the White
   Sands Missile Range. Its boundaries are those portions of Texas and New
   Mexico bounded on the south by latitude 31DEG41' North, on the east by
   longitude 104DEG11' West, on the north by latitude 34DEG30' North, and
   on the west by longitude 107DEG30' West.

   (h) No station may transmit with a transmitter power exceeding 50 W PEP
   on the 219-220 MHz segment of the 1.25 m band.

   (i) No station may transmit with an effective radiated power (ERP)
   exceeding 50 W PEP on the 60 m band. For the purpose of computing ERP,
   the transmitter PEP will be multiplied by the antenna gain relative to
   a dipole or the equivalent calculation in decibels. A half-wave dipole
   antenna will be presumed to have a gain of 1. Licensees using other
   antennas must maintain in their station records either the antenna
   manufacturer data on the antenna gain or calculations of the antenna
   gain.

   [ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at  56 FR 37161 , Aug. 5, 1991;
    56 FR 3043 , Jan. 28, 1991;  60 FR 15688 , Mar. 27, 1995;  65 FR 6550 , Feb.
   10, 2000;  71 FR 66465 , Nov. 15, 2006;  75 FR 27204 , May 14, 2010]