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47 CFR 80.1155: Radioprinter.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 47—Telecommunication
- CHAPTER I—FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
- SUBCHAPTER D—SAFETY AND SPECIAL RADIO SERVICES
- PART 80—STATIONS IN THE MARITIME SERVICES
- Subpart X—Voluntary Radio Installations
Radioprinter operations provide record communications between authorized maritime mobile stations.
(a) Supplementary eligibility requirements. Ships must be less than 1600 gross tons.
(b) Scope of communication. (1) Ship radioprinter communications may be conducted with an associated private coast station.
(2) Ships authorized to communicate by radioprinter with a common private coast station may also conduct intership radioprinter operations.
(3) Only those communications which are associated with the business and operational needs of the ship are authorized.
(c) Assignment and use of frequencies. (1) Frequencies for radioprinter operations are shared by several radio services including the maritime mobile service.
(2) Ship stations must conduct radioprinter operations only on frequencies assigned to their associated private coast station for that purpose.
(d) [Reserved]
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