§ 80.475   Scope of service of the Automated Maritime Telecommunications System
(AMTS).

   (a) A separate Form 601 is not required for each coast station in a system.
   However, except as provided in § 80.385(b) and paragraph (b) of this section,
   the applicant must provide the technical characteristics for each proposed
   coast station, including transmitter type, operating frequencies, emissions,
   transmitter output power, antenna arrangement, and location.

   (1) Applicants proposing to locate a coast station transmitter within 169
   kilometers (105 miles) of a channel 13 TV station or within 129 kilometers
   (80 miles) of a channel 10 TV station or with an antenna height greater than
   61 meters (200 feet), must submit an engineering study clearly showing the
   means of avoiding interference with television reception within the grade B
   contour, see § 80.215(h) of this chapter, unless the proposed station's
   predicted  interference  contour is fully encompassed by the composite
   interference contour of the applicant's existing system, or the proposed
   station's predicted interference contour extends the system's composite
   interference contour over water only (disregarding uninhabited islands).

   (2) Additionally, applicants required to submit the above specified must
   give written notice of the filing of such applications(s) to the television
   stations which may be affected. A list of the notified television stations
   must be submitted with the subject applications.

   (b) Coast stations for which the above specified need not be submitted
   because the proposed station's predicted interference contour is fully
   encompassed  by  the composite interference contour of the applicant's
   existing system or the proposed station's predicted interference contour
   extends  the  system's  composite interference contour over water only
   (disregarding uninhabited islands) must, at least 15 days before the station
   is put into operation, give written notice to the television stations which
   may be affected of the proposed station's technical characteristics, the
   date it will be put into operation, and the licensee's representative (name
   and phone number) to contact in the event a television station experiences
   interference.  No prior FCC authorization is required to construct and
   operate such a station, but, at the time the station is added, the AMTS
   licensee must make a record of the technical and administrative information
   concerning the station and, upon request, supply such information to the
   FCC. In addition, when the station is added, the AMTS licensee must send
   notification of the station's location to the American Radio Relay League,
   Inc., 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111-1494, and Interactive Systems,
   Inc., Suite 1103, 1601 North Kent Street, Arlington, VA 22209.

   (c) An AMTS system may provide private mobile radio service in addition to
   or instead of public correspondence service. However, such communications
   may  be  provided  only  to  stations whose licensees make cooperative
   arrangements  with  the AMTS coast station licensees. In emergency and
   distress situations, services must be provided to ship stations without
   prior arrangements.

   (d) AMTS systems providing private mobile radio service instead of, or in
   addition  to,  public  correspondence  service  are not required to be
   interconnected to the public switched network when providing such private
   mobile radio service. AMTS systems providing public correspondence service
   must be interconnected to the public switched network, but the licensee may
   also offer non-interconnected services.

   [ 51 FR 31213 , Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at  52 FR 35245 , Sept. 18, 1987;  56 FR 3783 , Jan. 31, 1991;  65 FR 77826 , Dec. 13, 2000;  67 FR 48567 , July 25,
   2002;  69 FR 19948 , Apr. 15, 2004;  72 FR 31194 , June 6, 2007]

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