47 C.F.R. § 97.111

Authorized transmissions

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(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 notified the ITU that it objects to such communications. The FCC will issue public notices of current arrangements for international communications.

(2) Transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs and to facilitate relief actions.

(3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in another FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;

(4) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a United States government station, necessary to providing communications in RACES; and

(5) 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; 71 FR 25982, May 3, 2006; 71 FR 66462, Nov. 15, 2006]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1991–2012 · leading case: United States v. Baxter, 841 F. Supp. 2d 378 (D. Me. 2012).

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United States v. Baxter, 841 F. Supp. 2d 378 (D. Me. 2012). · cites it 2× “Black that amateur radio operators are permitted to transmit amateur service information bulletins pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 97.111 (b)(6). Id. On January 29, 2002, the FCC sent a letter to Mr.”

Vernon Howard, Cross-Appellant v. City of Burlingame, Cross-Appellee, 937 F.2d 1376 (9th Cir. 1991). “The closest match is 47 C.F.R. § 97.111 , which authorizes holders of the Amateur Extra class license, like Howard, to operate their stations and communicate world-wide.”

Ermler v. Town of Brookhaven, 780 F. Supp. 120 (E.D.N.Y 1992). · cites it 2× “1991), in which the court found that 47 C.F.R. § 97.111 (concerning the regulation of ham radio antennas) was too “ ‘vague and amorphous' ” to create benefits “ ‘sufficiently specific and definite to qualify as enforceable rights under .”

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