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FCC Regulations - Part 97 Amateur Radio Service
[Effective Oct 1, 2006.]
Subpart C Special Operations
Sec. 97.203 Beacon station.
(a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician,
Technician Plus, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator
license may be a beacon. A holder of a Technician, Technician Plus,
General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be the
control operator of a beacon, subject to the privileges of the class of
operator license held.
(b) A beacon must not concurrently transmit on more than 1 channel
in the same amateur service frequency band, from the same station
location.
(c) The transmitter power of a beacon must not exceed 100 W.
(d) A beacon may be automatically controlled while it is
transmitting on the 28.20-28.30 MHz, 50.06-50.08 MHz, 144.275-144.300
MHz, 222.05-222.06 MHz or
432.300-432.400 MHz segments, or on the 33 cm and shorter wavelength
bands.
(e) Before establishing an automatically controlled beacon in the
National Radio Quiet Zone or before changing the transmitting frequency,
transmitter power, antenna height or directivity, the station licensee
must give written notification thereof to the Interference Office,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 2, Green Bank, WV 24944.
(1) The notification must include the geographical coordinates of
the antenna, antenna ground elevation above mean sea level (AMSL),
antenna center of radiation above ground level (AGL), antenna
directivity, proposed frequency, type of emission, and transmitter
power.
(2) If an objection to the proposed operation is received by the FCC
from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, Pocahontas
County, WV, for itself or on behalf of the Naval Research Laboratory at
Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, WV, within 20 days from the date of
notification, the FCC will consider all aspects of the problem and take
whatever action is deemed appropriate.
(f) A beacon must cease transmissions upon notification by an EIC
that the station is operating improperly or causing undue interference
to other operations. The beacon may not resume transmitting without
prior approval of the EIC.
(g) A beacon may transmit one-way communications.
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