Federal Communications Commission § 80.92
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Federal Communications Commission § 80.92 Commission’s Rules must comply with (e) Transmit while on board vessels the environmental processing rules set located on land unless authorized forth in §§ 1.1301–1.1319 of this chapter. under a public coast station license. [53 FR 28225, July 27, 1988] Vessels in the following situations are not considered to be on land for the OPERATING PROCEDURES—GENERAL purposes of this paragraph: (1) Vessels which are aground due to § 80.86 International regulations appli- a distress situation; cable. (2) Vessels in drydock undergoing re- In addition to being regulated by pairs; and these rules, the use and operation of (3) State or local government vessels stations subject to this part are gov- which are involved in search and rescue erned by the Radio Regulations and the operations including related training radio provisions of all other inter- exercises. national agreements in force to which (f) Transmit on frequencies or fre- the United States is a party. quency bands not authorized on the current station license. § 80.87 Cooperative use of frequency assignments. [51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 52 FR 35244, Sept. 18, 1987; 62 FR 40304, July 28, Each radio channel is available for 1997; 68 FR 46960, Aug. 7, 2003] use on a shared basis only and is not available for the exclusive use of any § 80.90 Suspension of transmission. one station or station licensee. Station Transmission must be suspended im- licensees must cooperate in the use of mediately upon detection of a trans- their respective frequency assignments mitter malfunction and must remain in order to minimize interference and suspended until the malfunction is cor- obtain the most effective use of the au- rected, except for transmission con- thorized radio channels. cerning the immediate safety of life or § 80.88 Secrecy of communication. property, in which case transmission must be suspended as soon as the emer- The station licensee, the master of gency is terminated. the ship, the responsible radio opera- tors and any person who may have § 80.91 Order of priority of commu- knowledge of the radio communica- nications. tions transmitted or received by a (a) All stations in the maritime mo- fixed, land, or mobile station subject to bile service and the maritime mobile- this part, or of any radio- satellite service shall be capable of of- communication service of such station, fering four levels of priority in the fol- must observe the secrecy requirements lowing order: of the Communications Act and the (1) Distress calls, distress messages, Radio Regulations. See sections 501, and distress traffic. 502, and 705 of the Communications Act (2) Urgency communications. and Article 23 of the Radio Regula- (3) Safety communications. tions. (4) Other communications. § 80.89 Unauthorized transmissions. (b) In a fully automated system, where it is impracticable to offer all Stations must not: four levels of priority, category 1 shall (a) Engage in superfluous radio- receive priority until such time as communication. intergovernmental agreements remove (b) Use telephony on 243 MHz. exemptions granted for such systems (c) Use selective calling on 2182 kHz from offering the complete order of pri- or 156.800 MHz. ority. (d) When using telephony, transmit signals or communications not ad- [68 FR 46960, Aug. 7, 2003] dressed to a particular station or sta- tions. This provision does not apply to § 80.92 Prevention of interference. the transmission of distress, alarm, ur- (a) The station operator must deter- gency, or safety signals or messages, or mine that the frequency is not in use to test transmissions. by monitoring the frequency before 35 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:53 Nov 28, 2016 Jkt 238217 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Q:\47\47V5.TXT 31 lpowell on DSK54DXVN1OFR with $$_JOB § 80.93 47 CFR Ch. I (10–1–16 Edition) transmitting, except for transmission (d) Ships voluntarily fitting GMDSS of signals of distress. subsystems. For ships voluntarily fit- (b) When a radiocommunication ting GMDSS subsystems, radios shall causes interference to a communica- be turned on and set to proper watch tion which is already in progress, the channels while ships are underway. If interfering station must cease trans- ship has duplicate GMDSS installa- mitting at the request of either party tions for DSC or INMARSAT, only one to the existing communication. As be- of each must be turned on and keeping tween nondistress traffic seeking to watch. commence use of a frequency, the pri- (e) Other than public coast or compul- ority is established under § 80.91. sory ship stations. The hours of service (c) Except in cases of distress, com- of stations other than those described munications between ship stations or in paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this between ship and aircraft stations section are determined by the station must not interfere with public coast licensee. stations. The ship or aircraft stations which cause interference must stop [51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 68 transmitting or change frequency upon FR 46960, Aug. 7, 2003] the first request of the affected coast station. § 80.94 Control by coast or Govern- ment station. § 80.93 Hours of service. When communicating with a coast (a) All stations. All stations whose station or any Government station in hours of service are not continuous the maritime mobile service, ship sta- must not suspend operation before hav- tions must comply with the instruction ing concluded all communication re- given by the coast station or Govern- quired in connection with a distress ment station relative to the order and call or distress traffic. time of transmission, the choice of fre- (b) Public coast stations. (1) Each pub- quency, the suspension of communica- lic coast station whose hours of service tion and the permissible type of mes- are not continuous must not suspend sage traffic that may be transmitted. operation before having concluded all This provision does not apply in the communication involving messages or event of distress. calls originating in or destined to mo- bile stations within range and mobile § 80.95 Message charges. stations which have indicated their (a) Except as specified in § 20.15(c) of presence. this chapter with respect to commer- (2) Unless otherwise authorized by cial mobile radio service providers, the Commission upon adequate show- charges must not be made for service ing of need, each public coast station of: authorized to operate on frequencies in (1) Any public coast station unless the 3000–23,000 kHz band must maintain tariffs for the service are on file with continuous hours of service. the Commission; (c) Compulsory ship stations. (1) Com- (2) Any station other than a public pulsory ship stations whose service is coast station or an Alaska—public not continuous may not suspend oper- fixed station, except cooperatively ation before concluding all traffic orig- inating in or destined for public coast shared stations covered by § 80.503; stations situated within their range (3) Distress calls and related traffic; and mobile stations which have indi- and cated their presence. (4) Navigation hazard warnings pre- (2) For GMDSS ships, radios shall be ceded by the SAFETY signal. turned on and set to proper watch (b) The licensee of each ship station channels while ships are underway. If a is responsible for the payment of all ship has duplicate GMDSS installa- charges accruing to any other sta- tions for DSC or INMARSAT, only one tion(s) or facilities for the handling or of each must be turned on and keeping forwarding of messages or communica- watch. tions transmitted by that station. 36 VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:53 Nov 28, 2016 Jkt 238217 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Q:\47\47V5.TXT 31 lpowell on DSK54DXVN1OFR with $$_JOB Federal Communications Commission § 80.100 (c) In order to be included in the ITU ation is necessary the radiotelegraph List of Coast Stations public coast sta- testing procedure described in this tions must recognize international Ac- paragraph must be followed: counting Authority Identification (a) The operator must not interfere Codes (AAIC) for purposes of billing with transmissions in progress. and accounts settlement in accordance (b) The operator must transmit ‘‘IE’’ with Article 66 of the Radio Regula- (two dots, space, one dot) on the test tions. Stations which elect not to rec- frequency as a warning that test emis- ognize international AAIC’s will be re- sions are about to be made. moved from the ITU List of Coast Sta- (c) If any station transmits ‘‘AS’’ tions. (wait), testing must be suspended. When transmission of ‘‘IE’’ is resumed [51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 52 and no response is heard, the test may FR 35244, Sept. 18, 1987; 69 FR 64671, Nov. 8, 2004] proceed. (d) Test signals composed of a series § 80.96 Maintenance tests. of ‘‘VVV’’ having a duration of not more than ten seconds, followed by the Stations are authorized to engage in call sign of the testing station will be test transmissions necessary for main- transmitted. The call sign must be sent tenance of the station. Test trans- clearly at a speed of approximately 10 missions must conform to appropriate words per minute. This test trans- test operating procedures. mission must not be repeated until a § 80.97 Radiotelegraph operating pro- period of at least one minute has cedures. elapsed. This section applies to ships and [69 FR 64671, Nov. 8, 2004] coast stations authorized to transmit in the band 405–525 kHz. § 80.99 Radiotelegraph station identi- (a) Except for the transmission of fication. distress or urgency signals, all trans- This section applies to coast, ship missions must cease within the band and survival craft stations authorized 485–515 kHz during each 500 kHz silence to transmit in the band 405–525 kHz.