home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- SUBPART E - PROVIDING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
-
-
-
- 97.401 Operation during a disaster.
-
- (a) When normal communication systems are overloaded, damaged
- or disrupted because a disaster has occurred, or is likely to
- occur, in an area where the amateur service is regulated by the
- FCC, an amateur station may make transmissions necessary to meet
- essential communication needs and facilitate relief actions.
- (b) When normal communication systems are overloaded, damaged
- or disrupted because a natural disaster has occurred, or is likely
- to occur, in an area where the amateur service is not regulated by
- the FCC, a station assisting in meeting essential communication
- needs and facilitating relief actions may do so only in accord with
- ITU Resolution No. 640 (Geneva, 1979). The 80 m, 75 m, 40 m, 30
- m, 20 m, 17 m, 15 m, 12 m, and 2 m bands may be used for these
- purposes.
- (c) When a disaster disrupts normal communication systems in
- a particular area, the FCC may declare a temporary state of
- communication emergency. The declaration will set forth any
- special conditions and special rules to be observed by amateur
- stations during the communication emergency. A request for a
- declaration of a temporary state of emergency should be directed
- to the EIC in the area concerned.
- (d) A station in, or within 92.6 km of, Alaska may transmit
- emissions J3E and R3E on the channel at 5.176 MHz for emergency
- communications. The channel must be shared with stations licensed
- in the Alaska-private fixed service. The transmitter power must
- not exceed 150 W.
-
-
-
- 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property.
-
- No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur
- station of any means of radiocommunication at its disposal to
- provide essential communication needs in connection with the
- immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property
- when normal communication systems are not available.
-
-
-
- 97.405 Station in distress.
-
- (a) No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur
- station in distress of any means at its disposal to attract
- attention, make known its condition and location, and obtain
- assistance.
- (b) No provision of these rules prevents the use by a station,
- in the exceptional circumstances described in paragraph (a), of
- this section, of any means of radiocommunications at its disposal
- to assist a station in distress.
-
-
-
- 97.407 RACES operation.
-
- (a) No station may transmit in RACES unless it is an
- FCC-licensed primary, club, or military recreation station and it
- is certified by a civil defense organization as registered with
- that organization, or it is an FCC-licensed RACES station. No
- person may be the control operator of a RACES station, or may be
- the control operator of an amateur station transmitting in RACES
- unless that person holds a FCC-issued amateur operator license and
- is certified by a civil defense organization as enrolled in that
- organization.
- (b) The frequency bands and segments and emissions authorized
- to the control operator are available to stations transmitting
- communications in RACES on a shared basis with the amateur service.
- In the event of an emergency which necessitates the invoking of the
- President's War Emergency Powers under the provisions of Section
- 706 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 606,
- RACES stations and amateur stations participating in RACES may only
- transmit on the following frequencies:
- (1) The 1800-1825 kHz, 1975-2000 kHz, 3.50-3.55 MHz,
- 3.93-3.98 MHz, 3.984-4.000 MHz, 7.079-7.125 MHz, 7.245-7.255 MHz,
- 10.10-10.15 MHz, 14.047-14.053 MHz, 14.22-14.23 MHz, 14.331-14.350
- MHz, 21.047-21.053 MHz, 21.228-21.267 MHz, 28.55-28.75 MHz,
- 29.237-29.273 MHz, 29.45-29.65 MHz, 50.35-50.75 MHz, 52-54 MHz,
- 144.50-145.71 MHz, 146-148 MHz, 2390-2450 MHz segments;
- (2) The 1.25 m, 70 cm and 23 cm bands; and
- (3) The channels at 3.997 MHz and 53.30 MHz may be used
- in emergency areas when required to make initial contact with a
- military unit and for communications with military stations on
- matters requiring coordination.
- (c) A RACES station may only communicate with:
- (1) Another RACES station;
- (2) An amateur station registered with a civil defense
- organization;
- (3) A United States Government station authorized by the
- responsible agency to intercommunicate with RACES stations;
- (4) A station in a service regulated by the FCC whenever
- such communication is authorized by the FCC.
- (d) An amateur station registered with a civil defense
- organization may only communicate with:
- (1) A RACES station licensed to the civil defense
- organization with which the amateur station is registered;
- (2) The following stations upon authorization of the
- responsible civil defense official for the organization in which
- the amateur station is registered:
- (i) A RACES station licensed to another civil
- defense organization;
- (ii) An amateur station registered with the same or
- another civil defense organization;
- (iii) A United States Government station authorized
- by the responsible agency to communicate with RACES stations; and
- (iv) A station in a service regulated by the FCC
- whenever such communication is authorized by the FCC.
- (e) All communications transmitted in RACES must be
- specifically authorized by the civil defense organization for the
- area served. Only civil defense communications of the following
- types may be transmitted:
- (1) Messages concerning impending or actual conditions
- jeopardizing the public safety, or affecting the national defense
- or security during periods of local, regional, or national civil
- emergencies;
- (2) Messages directly concerning the immediate safety of
- life of individuals, the immediate protection of property,
- maintenance of law and order, alleviation of human suffering and
- need, and the combating of armed attack or sabotage;
- (3) Messages directly concerning the accumulation and
- dissemination of public information or instructions to the civilian
- population essential to the activities of the civil defense
- organization or other authorized governmental or relief agencies;
- and
- (4) Communications for RACES training drills and tests
- necessary to ensure the establishment and maintenance of orderly
- and efficient operation of the RACES as ordered by the responsible
- civil defense organizations served. Such drills and tests may not
- exceed a total time of 1 hour per week. With the approval of the
- chief officer for emergency planning the applicable State,
- Commonwealth, District or territory, however, such tests and drills
- may be conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours no more than
- twice in any calendar year.
-