Sec.  22.313   Station identification.

   

   Link to an amendment published at  70 FR 19308 , Apr. 13, 2005.

   The licensee of each station in the Public Mobile Services must ensure
   that  the  transmissions  of that station are identified in accordance
   with the requirements of this section.

   (a) Station identification is not required for transmission by:

   (1) Stations in the Cellular Radiotelephone Service;

   (2)  General aviation ground stations in the Air-ground Radiotelephone
   Service;

   (3)  Rural  subscriber  stations  using  meteor burst propagation mode
   communications in the Rural Radiotelephone Service;

   (4) Stations using Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Systems in the Rural
   Radiotelephone Service;

   (5)  Nationwide network paging stations operating on 931 MHz channels;
   or,

   (6)   Stations   operating   pursuant   to   paging   geographic  area
   authorizations.

   (b)  For  all  other  stations  in the Public Mobile Services, station
   identification  must  be  transmitted each hour within five minutes of
   the hour, or upon completion of the first transmission after the hour.
   Transmission  of  station identification may be temporarily delayed to
   avoid  interrupting  the  continuity  of  any  public communication in
   progress,  provided  that station identification is transmitted at the
   conclusion of that public communication.

   (c)  Station identification must be transmitted by telephony using the
   English  language or by telegraphy using the international Morse code,
   and in a form that can be received using equipment appropriate for the
   modulation   type   employed,   and  understood  without  the  use  of
   unscrambling    devices,    except    that,   alternatively,   station
   identification   may  be  transmitted  digitally,  provided  that  the
   licensee provides the Commission with information sufficient to decode
   the   digital   transmission  to  ascertain  the  call  sign.  Station
   identification comprises transmission of the call sign assigned by the
   Commission  to the station, however, the following may be used in lieu
   of the call sign.

   (1)  For  transmission  from  subscriber  operated  transmitters,  the
   telephone  number  or  other  designation  assigned  by  the  carrier,
   provided  that  a written record of such designations is maintained by
   the carrier;

   (2)  For  general  aviation airborne mobile stations in the Air-Ground
   Radiotelephone  Service,  the  official FAA registration number of the
   aircraft;

   (3) For stations in the Paging and Radiotelephone Service, a call sign
   assigned to another station within the same system.

   [ 59 FR 59507 , Nov. 17, 1994, as amended at  59 FR 59955 , Nov. 21, 1994;
    62 FR 11633 , Mar. 12, 1997]