Goto Section: 80.1109 | 80.1113 | Table of Contents
FCC 80.1111
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 80.1111 Distress alerting.
(a) The transmission of a distress alert indicates that a mobile unit or
person is in distress and requires immediate assistance. The distress alert
is a digital selective call using a distress call format in bands used for
terrestrial radiocommunication or a distress message format, which is
relayed through space stations.
(b) The distress alert must be sent through a satellite either with absolute
priority in general communication channels or on exclusive distress and
safety frequencies or, alternatively, on the distress and safety frequencies
in the MF, HF, and VHF bands using digital selective calling.
(c) The distress alert must be sent only on the authority of the person
responsible for the ship, aircraft or other vehicle carrying the mobile
station or the mobile earth station.
(d) All stations which receive a distress alert transmitted by digital
selective calling must immediately cease any transmission capable of
interfering with distress traffic and must continue watch on the digital
selective call distress calling channel until the call has been acknowledged
to determine if a coast station acknowledges the call using digital
selective calling. Additionally, the station receiving the distress alert
must set watch on the associated distress traffic frequency for five minutes
to determine if distress traffic takes place. The ship can acknowledge the
call using voice or narrowband direct printing as appropriate on this
channel to the ship or to the rescue authority.
[ 57 FR 9065 , Mar. 16, 1992, as amended at 68 FR 46980 , Aug. 7, 2003]
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Goto Section: 80.1109 | 80.1113
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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