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203 Subpart C—Operating Requirements and Procedures Federal Communications Commission § 87.89 is obtained from Inmarsat in addition ments pertaining to antenna structure to the license from the Commission. painting and lighting. [57 FR 45749, Oct. 5, 1992, as amended at 63 FR [61 FR 4368, Feb. 6, 1996] 68957, Dec. 14, 1998] § 87.77 Availability for inspections. Subpart C—Operating The licensee must make the station Requirements and Procedures and its records available for inspection upon request. OPERATING REQUIREMENTS RADIO OPERATOR REQUIREMENTS § 87.69 Maintenance tests. § 87.87 Classification of operator li- The licensee may make routine censes and endorsements. maintenance tests on equipment other (a) Commercial radio operator li- than emergency locator transmitters if censes issued by the Commission are there is no interference with the com- classified in accordance with the Radio munications of any other station. Pro- Regulations of the International Tele- cedures for conducting tests on emer- communication Union. gency locator transmitters are con- (b) The following licenses are issued tained in subpart F. by the Commission. International clas- § 87.71 Frequency measurements. sification, if different from the license name, is given in parentheses. The li- A licensed operator must measure censes and their alphanumeric desig- the operating frequencies of all land- nator are listed in descending order. based transmitters at the following (1) T–1 First Class Radiotelegraph times: Operator’s Certificate (a) When the transmitter is origi- (2) T–2 Second Class Radiotelegraph nally installed; Operator’s Certificate (b) When any change or adjustment is (3) G General Radiotelephone Oper- made in the transmitter which may af- ator Licenes (radiotelephone operator’s fect an operating frequency; or general certificate) (c) When an operating frequency has (4) T–3 Third Class Radiotelegraph shifted beyond tolerance. Operator’s Certificate (radiotelegraph operator’s special certificate) § 87.73 Transmitter adjustments and (5) MP Marine Radio Operator Permit tests. (radiotelephone operator’s restricted A general radiotelephone operator certificate) must directly supervise and be respon- (6) RP Restricted Radiotelephone Op- sible for all transmitter adjustments or erator Permit (radiotelephone opera- tests during installation, servicing or tor’s restricted certificate) maintenance of a radio station. A gen- eral radiotelephone operator must be § 87.89 Minimum operator require- responsible for the proper functioning ments. of the station equipment. (a) A station operator must hold a commercial radio operator license or § 87.75 Maintenance of antenna struc- permit, except as listed in paragraph ture marking and control equip- (d). ment. (b) The minimum operator license or The owner of each antenna structure permit required for operation of each required to be painted and/or illumi- specific classification is: nated under the provisions of Section MINIMUM OPERATOR LICENSE OR PERMIT 303(q) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, shall operate and Land stations, all classes maintain the antenna structure paint- —All frequencies except VHF teleph- ing and lighting in accordance with ony transmitters providing domes- part 17 of this chapter. In the event of tic service ............................................RP default by the owner, each licensee or permittee shall be individually respon- Aircraft stations, all classes sible for conforming to the require- —Frequencies below 30 MHz allocated 203 VerDate 0ct<31>2002 10:08 Dec 13, 2002 Jkt 197192 PO 00000 Frm 00203 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\197192T.XXX 197192T § 87.91 47 CFR Ch. I (10–1–02 Edition) exclusively to aeronautical mobile OPERATING PROCEDURES services ................................................RP —Frequencies below 30 MHz not allo- § 87.103 Posting station license. cated exclusively to aeronautical (a) Stations at fixed locations. The li- mobile services ....................MP or higher cense or a photocopy must be posted or —Frequencies above 30 MHz not allo- retained in the station’s permanent cated exclusively to aeronautical mobile services and assigned for records. international use .................MP or higher (b) Aircraft radio stations. The license —Frequencies above 30 MHz not as- must be either posted in the aircraft or signed for international use ..............none kept with the aircraft registration cer- —Frequencies not used solely for tele- tificate. If a single authorization cov- phone or exceeding 250 watts car- ers a fleet of aircraft, a copy of the li- rier power or 1000 watts peak enve- cense must be either posted in each air- lope power...............................G or higher craft or kept with each aircraft reg- istration certificate. (c) The operator of a telephony sta- (c) Aeronautical mobile stations. The li- tion must directly supervise and be re- cense must be retained as a permanent sponsible for any other person who part of the station records. transmits from the station, and must ensure that such communications are [53 FR 28940, Aug. 1, 1988, as amended at 54 in accordance with the station license. FR 11720, Mar. 22, 1989] (d) No operator license is required to: § 87.105 Availability of operator permit (1) Operate an aircraft radar set, or license. radio altimeter, transponder or other All operator permits or licenses must aircraft automatic radionavigation be readily available for inspection. transmitter by flight personnel; (2) Test an emergency locator trans- § 87.107 Station identification. mitter or a survival craft station used (a) Aircraft station. Identify by one of solely for survival purposes; the following means: (3) Operate an aeronautical enroute (1) Aircraft radio station call sign. station which automatically transmits (2) Assigned FCC control number digital communications to aircraft sta- (assigned to ultralight aircraft). tions; (3) The type of aircraft followed by (4) Operate a VHF telephony trans- the characters of the registration mitter providing domestic service or marking (‘‘N’’ number) of the aircraft, used on domestic flights. omitting the prefix letter ‘‘N’’. When communication is initiated by a § 87.91 Operation of transmitter con- ground station, an aircraft station may trols. use the type of aircraft followed by the The holder of a marine radio operator last three characters of the registra- permit or a restricted radiotelephone tion marking. operator permit must perform only (4) The FAA assigned radiotelephony transmitter operations which are con- designator of the aircraft operating or- ganization followed by the flight iden- trolled by external switches. These op- tification number. erators must not perform any internal (5) An aircraft identification ap- adjustment of transmitter frequency proved by the FAA for use by aircraft determining elements. Further, the stations participating in an organized stability of the transmitter frequencies flying activity of short duration. at a station operated by these opera- (b) Land and fixed stations. Identify tors must be maintained by the trans- by means of radio station call sign, its mitter itself. When using an aircraft location, its assigned FAA identifier, radio station on maritime mobile serv- the name of the city area or airport ice frequencies the carrier power of the which it serves, or any additional iden- transmitter must not exceed 250 watts tification required. An aeronautical (emission A3E) or 1000 watts (emission enroute station which is part of a R3E, H3E, or J3E). multistation network may also be 204 VerDate 0ct<31>2002 10:08 Dec 13, 2002 Jkt 197192 PO 00000 Frm 00204 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\197192T.XXX 197192T Federal Communications Commission § 87.131 identified by the location of its control ice must maintain a written or auto- point. matic log in accordance with Para- (c) Survival craft station. Identify by graph 3.5, Volume II, Annex 10 of the transmitting a reference to its parent ICAO Convention. aircraft. No identification is required when distress signals are transmitted § 87.111 Suspension or discontinuance automatically. Transmissions other of operation. than distress or emergency signals, The licensee of any airport control such as equipment testing or adjust- tower station or radionavigation land ment, must be identified by the call sign or by the registration marking of station must notify the nearest FAA the parent aircraft followed by a single regional office upon the temporary sus- digit other than 0 or 1. pension or permanent discontinuance (d) Exempted station. The following of the station. The FAA center must be types of stations are exempted from notified again when service resumes. the use of a call sign: Airborne weather [54 FR 11720, Mar. 22, 1989] radar, radio altimeter, air traffic con- trol transponder, distance measuring equipment, collision avoidance equip- Subpart D—Technical ment, racon, radio relay, radio- Requirements navigation land test station (MTF), and automatically controlled aero- § 87.131 Power and emissions. nautical enroute stations. The following table lists authorized emissions and maximum power. Power § 87.109 Station logs. must be determined by direct measure- A station at a fixed location in the ment. international aeronautical mobile serv- Frequency band/ 9 1 Class of station frequency Authorized emission(s) Maximum power Aeronautical advisory ................................ VHF ..................... A3E ............................................................ 10 watts.10 Aeronautical multicom ............................... VHF ....................
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