Goto Section: 80.451 | 80.455 | Table of Contents
FCC 80.453
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 80.453 Scope of communications.
Public coast stations provide ship/shore radiotelephone and
radiotelegraph services.
(a) Public coast stations are authorized to communicate:
(1) With any ship or aircraft station operating in the maritime mobile
service, for the transmission or reception of safety communication;
(2) With any land station to exchange safety communications to or from
a ship or aircraft station;
(3) With Government and non-Government ship and aircraft stations to
exchange public correspondence;
(4) With units on land in accordance with § 80.123.
(b) Public coast stations are authorized to communicate with a
designated station at a remote fixed location where other communication
facilities are not available.
(c) Public coast stations are authorized to transmit meteorological and
navigational information of benefit to mariners.
(d) Each public coast telegraphy station is authorized to communicate
with other public coast telegraphy stations to exchange message traffic
destined to or originated at mobile stations:
(1) To exchange operating signals, brief service messages or safety
communication;
(2) To exchange message traffic destined for a mobile station when the
coast station initially concerned is unable to communicate directly
with the mobile station;
(3) In the Great Lakes region, to exchange message traffic originated
at a mobile station when the use of available point-to-point
communication facilities would delay the delivery of such message
traffic;
(4) Utilization of radiotelegraphy must not incur additional charges or
replace available point-to-point communication facilities;
(5) Only authorized working frequencies within the band 415 kHz to 5000
kHz must be employed for communications between coast stations;
(6) Harmful interference must not be caused to communication between
mobile stations and coast stations or between mobile stations.
[ 51 FR 31213 , Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 62 FR 40307 , July 28, 1997]
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Goto Section: 80.451 | 80.455
Goto Year: 2011 |
2013
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