§ 80.271 47 CFR Ch. I (10±1±97 Edition) § 80.271 Technical requirements for note in the Commission's Radio Equip- portable survival craft radio- ment List. telephone transceivers. (a) Portable survival craft radio- § 80.273 Technical requirements for telephone transceivers must comply radar equipment. with the following: The technical requirements for radar (1) The transceivers must receive and equipment are contained in § 80.825. transmit either on 457.525 MHz or on 156.800 MHz; Subpart GÐSafety Watch (2) The receiver must comply with Requirements and Procedures the requirements in part 15, subpart C of this chapter and must have a sen- COAST STATION SAFETY WATCHES sitivity of not more than 2 microvolts. The sensitivity requirement must be § 80.301 Watch requirements. met using the receiver sensitivity (a) Each public coast station operat- measurement procedure specified in ing on telegraphy frequencies in the the Radio Technical Commission for Marine Services (RTCM) Special Com- band 405±535 kHz must maintain a mittee No. 66 Report MMS±R2; watch for classes A1A, A2B and H2B (3) The effective radiated power of emissions by a licensed radiotelegraph the transmitter must be at least 0.1 operator on the frequency 500 kHz for watt; three minutes twice each hour, begin- (4) The transceivers must be battery ning at x h.15 and x h.45 Coordinated powered and operate for at least four Universal Time (UTC). hours with a transmit to receive ratio (b) Each public coast station licensed of 1:9 with no significant adverse effect to operate in the band 1605±3500 kHz upon the performance of the device; must monitor such frequency(s) as are (5) The transceivers must have a per- used for working or, at the licensee's manently attached waterproof label discretion, maintain a watch on 2182 with the statement ``Complies with the kHz. FCC requirements for survival craft (c) Except for distress, urgency or two-way radiotelephone equipment''; safety messages, coast stations must and not transmit on 2182 kHz during the si- (6) The antenna must be permanently lence periods for three minutes twice attached to the device or its removal each hour beginning at x h.00 and x h.30 must require the use of a special tool. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). (b) Portable radiotelephone (d) Each public coast station must transceivers that are already type ac- provide assistance for distress commu- cepted may be used to satisfy the sur- nications when requested by the Coast vival craft radiotelephone requirement Guard. until October 1, 1993, provided the de- vice meets the technical requirements § 80.302 Notice of discontinuance, re- in paragraphs (a) (1) through (3) of this duction, or impairment of service section. involving a distress watch. (c) Survival craft radiotelephone (a) When changes occur in the oper- equipment installed after October 1, ation of a public coast station which 1988, must be type accepted to meet the include discontinuance, reduction or requirements of this section. suspension of a watch required to be (d) After October 1, 1993, all portable maintained on 500 kHz, 2182 kHz, or radiotelephone transceivers that are used to satisfy the survival craft radio- 156.800 MHz, notification must be made telephone requirement must have been by the licensee to the nearest district type accepted to meet the require- office of the U.S. Coast Guard as soon ments of this section. as practicable. The notification must (e) Portable radiotelephone include the estimated or known re- transceivers which are type accepted to sumption time of the watch. meet the requirements of this section (b) [Reserved] must be identified by an appropriate 68 VerDate 02<DEC>97 14:49 Jan 22, 1998 Jkt 174183 PO 00001 Frm 00064 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 C:\174183.TXT 174183 Federal Communications Commission § 80.305 § 80.303 Watch on 156.800 MHz (Chan- h.00 and x h.30 Coordinated Universal nel 16). Time (UTC) using either a loudspeaker (a) During its hours of operation, or headphone. Expect for distress, ur- each coast station operating in the 156± gency or safety messages, ship stations 162 MHz band and serving rivers, bays must not transmit during the silence and inland lakes except the Great periods on 2182 kHz. Lakes, must maintain a safety watch on the frequency 156.800 MHz except § 80.305 Watch requirements of the when transmitting on 156.800 MHz. Communications Act and the Safety (b) A coast station may be exempted Convention. from compliance with the watch re- (a) Each ship of the United States quirement when Federal, State or which is equipped with a radio- Local Government stations maintain a telegraph station for compliance with watch on 156.800 MHz over 95% of the part II of title III of the Communica- coast station's service area. Requests tions Act or chapter IV of the Safety for an exemption must include a chart Convention must: showing the receiving service area of (1) Keep a continuous and efficient the inland water public coast station. watch on 500 kHz by means of radio of- The coordinates, to the nearest ficers while being navigated in the minute, and the receiving service area open sea outside a harbor or port. In of the Government stations maintain- lieu thereof, on a cargo ship equipped ing the continuous watch on 156.800 with a radiotelegraph auto alarm in MHz must be indicated on the same proper operating condition, an efficient chart. The service area of these sta- watch on 500 kHz must be maintained tions must be calculated using criteria by means of a radio officer for at least specified in subpart P of this part. 8 hours per day in the aggregate, i.e., (c) If the government station(s) pro- for at least one-third of each day or viding the 156.800 MHz watch over the portion of each day that the vessel is service area of an exempt station tem- navigated in the open sea outside of a porarily discontinues that watch, the harbor or port. exempt coast station upon receiving notice of this condition must maintain (2) Keep a continuous and efficient the watch on 156.800 HMz during the watch on the radiotelephone distress discontinuance. Automated maritime frequency 2182 kHz from the principal communications systems' compliance radio operating position or the room with this requirement is limited to the from which the vessel is normally use of existing facilities. steered while being navigated in the open sea outside a harbor or port. A ra- [51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 52 diotelephone distress frequency watch FR 35245, Sept. 18, 1987] receiver having a loudspeaker and a ra- SHIP STATION SAFETY WATCHES diotelephone auto alarm facility must be used to keep the continuous watch § 80.304 Watch requirement during si- on 2182 kHz if such watch is kept from lence periods. the room from which the vessel is nor- (a) Each ship station operating on te- mally steered. After a determination legraphy frequencies in the band 405± by the master that conditions are such 535 kHz, must maintain a watch on the that maintenance of the listening frequency 500 kHz of three minutes watch would interfere with the safe twice each hour beginning at x h.15 and navigation of the ship, the watch may x h.45 Coordinated Universal Time be maintained by the use of the radio- (UTC) by a licensed radiotelegraph offi- telephone auto alarm facility alone. cer using either a loudspeaker or head- (3) Keep a continuous and efficient phone. watch on the VHF distress frequency (b) Each ship station operating on te- 156.800 MHz from the room from which lephony on frequencies in the band the vessel is normally steered while in 1605±3500 kHz must maintain a watch the open sea outside a harbor or port. on the frequency 2182 kHz. This watch The watch must be maintained by a must be maintained at least twice each designated member of the crew who hour for 3 minutes commencing at x may perform other duties, relating to 69 VerDate 02<DEC>97 14:49 Jan 22, 1998 Jkt 174183 PO 00001 Frm 00065 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 C:\174183.TXT 174183 § 80.306 47 CFR Ch. I (10±1±97 Edition) the operation or navigation of the ves- and participating in a Vessel Traffic sel, provided such other duties do not Services (VTS) system when a watch is interfere with the effectiveness of the maintained on both the bridge-to- watch. Use of a properly adjusted bridge frequency and a VTS frequency. squelch or brief interruptions due to (c) Each vessel of the United States other nearby VHF transmissions are transporting more than six passengers not considered to adversely affect the for hire, which is equipped with a ra- continuity or efficiency of the required diotelephone station for compliance watch on the VHF distress frequency. with part III of title III of the Commu- This watch need not be maintained by nications Act must, while being navi- vessels subject to the Bridge-to-Bridge gated in the open sea or any tidewater Act and participating in a Vessel Traf- within the jurisdiction of the United fic Services (VTS) system as required States adjacent or contiguous to the or recommended by the U.S. Coast open sea, keep a continuous watch on Guard, when an efficient listening 2182 kHz while the vessel is beyond watch is maintained on both the VHF communication range of the near- bridge-to-bridge frequency and a sepa- est VHF coast station, whenever the rate assigned VTS frequency.