Sec. 97.111  Authorized transmissions.

    (a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way 
communications:
    (1) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with other stations 
in the amateur service, except those in any country whose administration 
has given notice that it objects to such communications. The FCC will 
issue public notices of current arrangements for international 
communications;
    (2) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in 
another FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;
    (3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a United 
States government station, necessary to providing communications in 
RACES; and
    (4) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in a 
service not regulated by the FCC, but authorized by the FCC to 
communicate with amateur stations. An amateur station may exchange 
messages with a participating United States military station during an 
Armed Forces Day Communications Test.
    (b) In addition to one-way transmissions specifically authorized 
elsewhere in this part, an amateur station may transmit the following 
types of one-way communications:
    (1) Brief transmissions necessary to make adjustments to the 
station;
    (2) Brief transmissions necessary to establishing two-way 
communications with other stations;
    (3) Telecommand;
    (4) Transmissions necessary to providing emergency communications;
    (5) Transmissions necessary to assisting persons learning, or 
improving proficiency in, the international Morse code; and
    (6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information bulletins.
    (7) Transmissions of telemetry.
[ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at  56 FR 56171 , Nov. 1, 1991]