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FCC 97.113
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
(a) No amateur station shall transmit:
(1) Communications specifically prohibited elsewhere in this part;
(2) Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or
indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules;
(3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a
pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer, with
the following exceptions:
(i) A station licensee or station control operator may participate on behalf
of an employer in an emergency preparedness or disaster readiness test or
drill, limited to the duration and scope of such test or drill, and
operational testing immediately prior to such test or drill. Tests or drills
that are not government-sponsored are limited to a total time of one hour
per week; except that no more than twice in any calendar year, they may be
conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours.
(ii) An amateur operator may notify other amateur operators of the
availability for sale or trade of apparatus normally used in an amateur
station, provided that such activity is not conducted on a regular basis.
(iii) A control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a
teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used by
that teacher as a part of classroom instruction at an educational
institution.
(iv) The control operator of a club station may accept compensation for the
periods of time when the station is transmitting telegraphy practice or
information bulletins, provided that the station transmits such telegraphy
practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours per week; schedules operations
on at least six amateur service MF and HF bands using reasonable measures to
maximize coverage; where the schedule of normal operating times and
frequencies is published at least 30 days in advance of the actual
transmissions; and where the control operator does not accept any direct or
indirect compensation for any other service as a control operator.
(4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere
in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act;
messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as
otherwise provided herein; obscene or indecent words or language; or false
or deceptive messages, signals or identification.
(5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished
alternatively through other radio services.
(b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, nor may
an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as specifically
provided in these rules; nor shall an amateur station engage in any activity
related to program production or news gathering for broadcasting purposes,
except that communications directly related to the immediate safety of human
life or the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to
broadcasters for dissemination to the public where no other means of
communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event.
(c) No station shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from any type
of radio station other than an amateur station, except propagation and
weather forecast information intended for use by the general public and
originated from United States Government stations, and communications,
including incidental music, originating on United States Government
frequencies between a manned spacecraft and its associated Earth stations.
Prior approval for manned spacecraft communications retransmissions must be
obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Such
retransmissions must be for the exclusive use of amateur radio operators.
Propagation, weather forecasts, and manned spacecraft communications
retransmissions may not be conducted on a regular basis, but only
occasionally, as an incident of normal amateur radio communications.
(d) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater, or space station, may
automatically retransmit the radio signals of other amateur station.
[ 58 FR 43072 , Aug. 13, 1993; 58 FR 47219 , Sept. 8, 1993, as amended at 71 FR 25982 , May 3, 2006; 71 FR 66462 , Nov. 15, 2006; 75 FR 46857 , Aug. 4, 2010;
79 FR 35291 , June 20, 2014]
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Goto Section: 97.111 | 97.115
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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