47 CFR Part 80
PART 80—STATIONS IN THE MARITIME SERVICES
- PART 80—STATIONS IN THE MARITIME SERVICES
- Chapter I—Federal Communications Commission › Subchapter D—Safety and Special Radio Services
- Subpart A—General Information
- General
- §§ 80.1-80.3 [Reserved]
- § 80.5 Definitions.
- § 80.7 Incorporation by reference.
- Subpart B—Applications and Licenses
- § 80.11 [Reserved]
- § 80.13 Station license required.
- § 80.15 Eligibility for station license.
- § 80.17 Administrative classes of stations.
- § 80.21 Supplemental information required.
- § 80.25 License term.
- § 80.31 [Reserved]
- § 80.37 One authorization for a plurality of stations.
- § 80.39 Authorized station location.
- § 80.41 Control points and dispatch points.
- § 80.43 Equipment acceptable for licensing.
- § 80.45 [Reserved]
- § 80.47 Operation during emergency.
- § 80.49 Construction and regional service requirements.
- § 80.51 Ship earth station licensing.
- § 80.53 Application for a portable ship station license.
- § 80.54 Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS)—System Licensing.
- § 80.55 Application for a fleet station license.
- § 80.57 Canada/U.S.A. channeling arrangement for VHF maritime public correspondence.
- § 80.59 Compulsory ship inspections.
- § 80.60 Partitioned licenses and disaggregated spectrum.
- Subpart C—Operating Requirements and Procedures
- Station Requirements—General
- § 80.61 Commission inspection of stations.
- § 80.63 Maintenance of transmitter power.
- Station Requirements—Land Stations
- § 80.67 General facilities requirements for coast stations.
- § 80.68 Facilities requirements for public coast stations using telegraphy.
- § 80.69 Facilities requirement for public coast stations using telephony.
- § 80.70 Special conditions relative to coast station VHF facilities.
- § 80.71 Operating controls for stations on land.
- § 80.72 Antenna requirements for coast stations.
- § 80.74 Public coast station facilities for a telephony busy signal.
- § 80.76 Requirements for land station control points.
- Station Requirements—Ship Stations
- § 80.79 Inspection of ship station by a foreign Government.
- § 80.80 Operating controls for ship stations.
- § 80.81 Antenna requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.83 [Reserved]
- Operating Procedures—General
- § 80.86 International regulations applicable.
- § 80.87 Cooperative use of frequency assignments.
- § 80.88 Secrecy of communication.
- § 80.89 Unauthorized transmissions.
- § 80.90 Suspension of transmission.
- § 80.91 Order of priority of communications.
- § 80.92 Prevention of interference.
- § 80.93 Hours of service.
- § 80.94 Control by coast or Government station.
- § 80.95 Message charges.
- § 80.96 Maintenance tests.
- § 80.97 Radiotelegraph operating procedures.
- § 80.98 Radiotelegraph testing procedures.
- § 80.99 Radiotelegraph station identification.
- § 80.100 Morse code requirement.
- § 80.101 Radiotelephone testing procedures.
- § 80.102 Radiotelephone station identification.
- § 80.103 Digital selective calling (DSC) operating procedures.
- § 80.104 Identification of radar transmissions not authorized.
- Operating Procedures—Land Stations
- § 80.105 General obligations of coast stations.
- § 80.106 Intercommunication in the mobile service.
- § 80.107 Service of private coast stations and marine-utility stations.
- § 80.108 [Reserved]
- § 80.109 Transmission to a plurality of mobile stations by a public coast station.
- § 80.110 [Reserved]
- § 80.111 Radiotelephone operating procedures for coast stations.
- Operating Procedures—Ship Stations
- § 80.114 Authority of the master.
- § 80.115 Operational conditions for use of associated ship units.
- § 80.116 Radiotelephone operating procedures for ship stations.
- Special Procedures—Public Coast Stations
- § 80.121 Public coast stations using telegraphy.
- § 80.122 Public coast stations using facsimile and data.
- § 80.123 Service to stations on land.
- Special Procedures—Private Coast Stations
- § 80.131 Radioprinter operations.
- § 80.133 Private coast stations using facsimile in Alaska.
- Special Procedures—Ship Stations
- § 80.141 General provisions for ship stations.
- § 80.142 Ships using radiotelegraphy.
- § 80.143 Required frequencies for radiotelephony.
- § 80.145 [Reserved]
- Shipboard General Purpose Watches
- § 80.146 [Reserved]
- § 80.147 Watch on 2182 kHz.
- § 80.148 Watch on 156.8 MHz (Channel 16).
- Violations
- § 80.149 {Reserved]
- Subpart D—Operator Requirements
- § 80.151 Classification of operator licenses and endorsements.
- Coast Station Operator Requirements
- § 80.153 Coast station operator requirements.
- Ship Station Operator Requirements
- § 80.155 Ship station operator requirements.
- § 80.156 Control by operator.
- § 80.157 Radio officer defined.
- § 80.159 Operator requirements of Title III of the Communications Act and the Safety Convention.
- § 80.161 Operator requirements for subpart T vessels on the Great Lakes.
- § 80.163 Operator requirements of the Bridge-to-Bridge Act.
- § 80.165 Operator requirements for voluntary stations.
- General Operator Requirements
- § 80.167 Limitations on operators.
- § 80.169 Operators required to adjust transmitters or radar.
- § 80.175 Availability of operator licenses.
- § 80.177 When operator license is not required.
- § 80.179 Unattended operation.
- Subpart E—General Technical Standards
- § 80.201 [Reserved]
- § 80.203 Authorization of transmitters for licensing.
- § 80.205 Bandwidths.
- § 80.207 Classes of emission.
- § 80.209 Transmitter frequency tolerances.
- § 80.211 Emission limitations.
- § 80.213 Modulation requirements.
- § 80.215 Transmitter power.
- § 80.217 Suppression of interference aboard ships.
- § 80.219 Special requirements for narrow-band direct-printing (NB-DP) equipment.
- § 80.221 Special requirements for automatically generating the radiotelephone alarm signal.
- § 80.223 Special requirements for survival craft stations.
- § 80.225 Requirements for selective calling equipment.
- § 80.227 Special requirements for protection from RF radiation.
- § 80.229 Special requirements for automatic link establishment (ALE).
- § 80.231 Technical Requirements for Class B Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment.
- § 80.233 Technical requirements for Automatic Identification System Search and Rescue Transmitters (AIS-SART) equipment.
- Subpart F—Equipment Authorization for Compulsory Ships
- § 80.251 Scope.
- § 80.268 Technical requirements for radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.271 Technical requirements for portable survival craft radiotelephone transceivers.
- § 80.273 Radar standards.
- § 80.275 Technical Requirements for Class A Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment.
- § 80.277 Ship Security Alert System (SSAS).
- § 80.288 Direction finding and homing equipment.
- § 80.289 Requirements for radio direction finder.
- § 80.290 Auxiliary receiving antenna.
- § 80.291 Installation of direction finder.
- § 80.292 Contingent acceptance of direction finder calibration.
- § 80.293 Check bearings by authorized ship personnel.
- Subpart G—Safety Watch Requirements and Procedures
- Coast Station Safety Watches
- § 80.301 Watch requirements.
- § 80.302 Notice of discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service involving a distress watch.
- § 80.303 Watch on 156.800 MHz (Channel 16).
- Ship Station Safety Watches
- § 80.304 Watch requirement during silence periods.
- § 80.305 Watch requirements of the Communications Act and the Safety Convention.
- § 80.307 Compulsory use of radiotelegraph auto alarm.
- § 80.308 Watch required for subpart T vessels on the Great Lakes.
- § 80.309 Watch required by the Bridge-to-Bridge Act.
- § 80.310 Watch required by voluntary vessels.
- Distress, Alarm, Urgency and Safety Procedures
- § 80.311 Authority for distress transmission.
- § 80.312 Priority of distress transmissions.
- § 80.313 Frequencies for use in distress.
- § 80.314 Distress communications.
- § 80.317 Radiotelegraph and radiotelephone alarm signals.
- § 80.318 Use of alarm signals.
- § 80.319 Radiotelegraph distress call and message transmission procedure.
- § 80.320 Radiotelephone distress call and message transmission procedure.
- § 80.321 Acknowledgement of receipt of distress message.
- § 80.322 Form of acknowledgement.
- § 80.323 Information furnished by an acknowledging station.
- § 80.324 Transmission of distress message by station not itself in distress.
- § 80.325 Control of distress traffic.
- § 80.326 Notification of resumption of normal working.
- § 80.327 Urgency signals and messages.
- § 80.329 Safety signals and messages.
- § 80.331 Bridge-to-bridge communication procedure.
- § 80.332 Equipment to aid search and rescue operations.
- § 80.333 Stations in the maritime mobile-satellite service.
- § 80.334 False distress alerts.
- § 80.335 Procedures for canceling false distress alerts.
- Subpart H—Frequencies
- Radiotelegraphy and Data
- § 80.351 [Reserved]
- § 80.353 [Reserved]
- § 80.355 Distress, urgency, safety, call and reply Morse code frequencies.
- § 80.357 Working frequencies for Morse code and data transmission.
- § 80.359 Frequencies for digital selective calling (DSC).
- § 80.361 Frequencies for narrow-band direct-printing (NBDP), radioprinter and data transmissions.
- § 80.363 Frequencies for facsimile.
- § 80.364 Frequencies for VHF digital small message services (VDSMS).
- Radiotelephony
- § 80.365 [Reserved]
- § 80.367 General uses—radiotelephony.
- § 80.369 Distress, urgency, safety, call and reply frequencies.
- § 80.371 Public correspondence frequencies.
- § 80.373 Private communications frequencies.
- § 80.374 Provisions for frequencies in the 4000-4063 and the 8100-8195 kHz bands shared with the fixed service.
- Radiodetermination
- § 80.375 Radiodetermination frequencies.
- § 80.376 Radio buoy operations.
- Ship Earth Stations
- § 80.377 Frequencies for ship earth stations.
- Aircraft Stations
- § 80.379 Maritime frequencies assignable to aircraft stations.
- Operational Fixed Stations
- § 80.381 Frequencies for operational fixed stations.
- Vessel Traffic Services System (VTS)
- § 80.383 Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) system frequencies.
- Automated Systems
- § 80.385 Frequencies for automated systems.
- Alaska Fixed Stations
- § 80.387 Frequencies for Alaska fixed stations.
- Maritime Support Stations
- § 80.389 Frequencies for maritime support stations.
- AIS Stations
- § 80.393 Frequencies for AIS stations.
- Subpart I—Station Documents
- § 80.401 Station documents requirement.
- § 80.403 Availability of documents.
- § 80.405 Station license.
- § 80.407 Operator authorization.
- § 80.409 Station logs.
- § 80.411 Vessel certification or exemption.
- § 80.413 On-board station equipment records.
- §§ 80.415-80.417 [Reserved]
- Subpart J—Public Coast Stations
- Stations on Land
- § 80.451 [Reserved]
- § 80.453 Scope of communications.
- §§ 80.455-80.461 [Reserved]
- Use of Telephony
- § 80.465 [Reserved]
- § 80.467 Duplication of VHF service.
- § 80.469 Maritime mobile repeater stations in Alaska.
- § 80.471 Discontinuance or impairment of service.
- Automated Systems
- § 80.475 Scope of service of the Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS).
- § 80.477 AMTS points of communication.
- § 80.479 Assignment and use of frequencies for AMTS.
- § 80.481 Alternative technical parameters for AMTS transmitters.
- Subpart K—Private Coast Stations and Marine Utility Stations
- § 80.501 Supplemental eligibility requirements.
- § 80.503 Cooperative use of facilities.
- § 80.505 Points of communication.
- § 80.507 Scope of service.
- § 80.509 [Reserved]
- § 80.513 Frequency coordination.
- § 80.514 Marine VHF frequency coordinating committee(s).
- § 80.515 Limitations on use.
- § 80.517 Time limitation on communication.
- § 80.519 Station identification.
- Subpart L—Operational Fixed Stations
- § 80.551 [Reserved]
- § 80.553 Supplemental eligibility requirements.
- § 80.555 Scope of communication.
- § 80.557 Assignment and use of frequencies.
- § 80.559 Licensing limitations.
- Subpart M—Stations in the Radiodetermination Service
- § 80.601 Scope of communications.
- § 80.603 [Reserved]
- § 80.605 U.S. Coast Guard coordination.
- Subpart N—Maritime Support Stations
- § 80.651 Supplemental eligibility requirements.
- § 80.653 Scope of communications.
- § 80.655 Use of frequencies.
- § 80.659 Technical requirements.
- Subpart O—Alaska Fixed Stations
- § 80.701 Scope of service.
- § 80.703 Priority of distress and other signals.
- § 80.705 Hours of service of Alaska-public fixed stations.
- § 80.707 Cooperative use of frequency assignments.
- § 80.709 [Reserved]
- § 80.711 Use of U.S. Government frequencies.
- Subpart P—Standards for Computing Public Coast Station VHF Coverage
- § 80.751 [Reserved]
- § 80.753 Signal strength requirements at the service area contour.
- § 80.755 Applicability.
- § 80.757 Topographical data.
- § 80.759 Average terrain elevation.
- § 80.761 Conversion graphs.
- § 80.763 Effective antenna height.
- § 80.765 Effective radiated power.
- § 80.767 Propagation curve.
- § 80.769 Shadow loss.
- § 80.771 Method of computing coverage.
- § 80.773 Co-channel interference protection.
- Subpart Q [Reserved]
- Subpart R—Technical Equipment Requirements for Cargo Vessels Not Subject to Subpart W
- § 80.851 Applicability.
- § 80.853 Radiotelephone station.
- § 80.854 Radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.855 Radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.858 Radiotelephone receiver.
- § 80.859 Main power supply.
- § 80.860 Reserve power supply.
- § 80.861 Required capacity.
- § 80.862 Proof of capacity.
- § 80.863 Antenna system.
- § 80.864 Emergency electric lights.
- § 80.865 Radiotelephone station clock.
- § 80.866 Spare antenna.
- § 80.867 Ship station tools, instruction books, circuit diagrams and testing equipment.
- § 80.868 Card of instructions.
- § 80.869 Test of radiotelephone station.
- § 80.871 VHF radiotelephone station.
- § 80.872 The VHF radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.873 VHF radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.874 VHF radiotelephone receiver.
- § 80.875 VHF radiotelephone power supply.
- § 80.876 VHF radiotelephone antenna system.
- § 80.877 Controls and indicators required for VHF radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.880 Vessel radio equipment.
- § 80.881 Equipment requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.882 2182 kHz watch.
- Subpart S—Compulsory Radiotelephone Installations for Small Passenger Boats
- § 80.901 Applicability.
- § 80.903 Inspection of radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.905 Vessel radio equipment.
- § 80.907 Principal operating position.
- § 80.909 Radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.911 VHF transmitter.
- § 80.913 Radiotelephone receivers.
- § 80.915 Main power supply.
- § 80.917 Reserve power supply.
- § 80.919 Required capacity.
- § 80.921 Proof of capacity.
- § 80.923 Antenna system.
- § 80.925 Electric light.
- § 80.927 Antenna radio frequency indicator.
- § 80.929 Nameplate.
- § 80.931 Test of radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.933 General small passenger vessel exemptions.
- § 80.935 Station clock.
- Subpart T—Radiotelephone Installation Required for Vessels on the Great Lakes
- § 80.951 Applicability.
- § 80.953 Inspection and certification.
- § 80.955 Radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.956 Required frequencies and uses.
- § 80.957 Principal operating position.
- § 80.959 Radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.961 Radiotelephone receiver.
- § 80.963 Main power supply.
- § 80.965 Reserve power supply.
- § 80.967 Antenna system.
- § 80.969 Illumination of operating controls.
- § 80.971 Test of radiotelephone installation.
- Subpart U—Radiotelephone Installations Required by the Bridge-to-Bridge Act
- § 80.1001 Applicability.
- § 80.1003 Station required.
- § 80.1005 Inspection of station.
- § 80.1007 Bridge-to-bridge radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.1009 Principal operator and operating position.
- § 80.1011 Transmitter.
- § 80.1013 Receiver.
- § 80.1015 Power supply.
- § 80.1017 Antenna system.
- § 80.1019 Antenna radio frequency indicator.
- § 80.1021 Nameplate.
- § 80.1023 Test of radiotelephone installation.
- Subpart V—Emergency Position Indicating Radiobeacons (EPIRB's)
- § 80.1051 [Reserved]
- § 80.1053 Prohibition on certification, manufacture, importation, sale or use of Class A, Class B, Class S, and INMARSAT-E EPIRBs.
- §§ 80.1055-80.1059 [Reserved]
- § 80.1061 Special requirements for 406.0-406.1 MHz EPIRB stations.
- Subpart W—Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
- General Provisions
- § 80.1065 Applicability.
- § 80.1067 Inspection of station.
- § 80.1069 Maritime sea areas.
- § 80.1071 Exemptions.
- § 80.1073 Radio operator requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.1074 Radio maintenance personnel for at-sea maintenance.
- § 80.1075 Radio records.
- § 80.1077 Frequencies.
- Equipment Requirements for Ship Stations
- § 80.1081 Functional requirements.
- § 80.1083 Ship radio installations.
- § 80.1085 Ship radio equipment—General.
- § 80.1087 Ship radio equipment—Sea area A1.
- § 80.1089 Ship radio equipment—Sea areas A1 and A2.
- § 80.1091 Ship radio equipment—Sea areas A1, A2, and A3.
- § 80.1093 Ship radio equipment—Sea areas A1, A2, A3, and A4.
- § 80.1095 Survival craft equipment.
- § 80.1099 Ship sources of energy.
- § 80.1101 Performance standards.
- § 80.1103 Equipment authorization.
- § 80.1105 Maintenance requirements.
- § 80.1107 Test of radiotelephone station.
- Operating Procedures for Distress and Safety Communications
- § 80.1109 Distress, urgency, and safety communications.
- § 80.1111 Distress alerting.
- § 80.1113 Transmission of a distress alert.
- § 80.1114 False distress alerts.
- § 80.1115 Transmission of a distress alert by a station not itself in distress.
- § 80.1117 Procedure for receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts.
- § 80.1119 Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by coast stations and coast earth stations.
- § 80.1121 Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by ship stations and ship earth stations.
- § 80.1123 Watch requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.1125 Search and rescue coordinating communications.
- § 80.1127 On-scene communications.
- § 80.1129 Locating and homing signals.
- § 80.1131 Transmissions of urgency communications.
- § 80.1133 Transmission of safety communications.
- § 80.1135 Transmission of maritime safety information.
- Subpart X—Voluntary Radio Installations
- General
- § 80.1151 Voluntary radio operations.
- § 80.1153 Station log and radio watches.
- Voluntary Telegraphy
- § 80.1155 Radioprinter.
- § 80.1157 Facsimile.
- § 80.1159 Narrow-band direct-printing (NB-DP).
- § 80.1161 Emergency position indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB).
- Voluntary Telephony
- § 80.1165 Assignment and use of frequencies.
- § 80.1169 [Reserved]
- § 80.1171 Assignment and use of frequencies.
- On-Board Communications
- § 80.1175 Scope of communications of on-board stations.
- § 80.1177 Assignment and use of frequencies.
- § 80.1179 On-board repeater limitations.
- § 80.1181 Station identification.
- § 80.1183 Remote control for maneuvering or navigation.
- Mobile-Satellite Stations
- § 80.1185 Supplemental eligibility for mobile-satellite stations.
- § 80.1187 Scope of communication.
- § 80.1189 Portable ship earth stations.
- Radiodetermination
- § 80.1201 Special provisions for cable-repair ship stations.
- Subpart Y—Competitive Bidding Procedures
- § 80.1251 Maritime communications subject to competitive bidding.
- § 80.1252 [Reserved]
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