§ 97.111   Authorized transmissions.

   (a)  An  amateur  station  may transmit the following types of two-way
   communications:

   (1) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with other stations in the
   amateur  service, except those in any country whose administration has
   notified the ITU that it objects to such communications. The FCC will issue
   public notices of current arrangements for international communications.

   (2) Transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs and to
   facilitate relief actions.

   (3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in another
   FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;

   (4)  Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a United States
   government station, necessary to providing communications in RACES; and

   (5) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in a service
   not regulated by the FCC, but authorized by the FCC to communicate with
   amateur  stations.  An  amateur  station  may exchange messages with a
   participating United States military station during an Armed Forces Day
   Communications Test.

   (b) In addition to one-way transmissions specifically authorized elsewhere
   in this part, an amateur station may transmit the following types of one-way
   communications:

   (1) Brief transmissions necessary to make adjustments to the station;

   (2) Brief transmissions necessary to establishing two-way communications
   with other stations;

   (3) Telecommand;

   (4) Transmissions necessary to providing emergency communications;

   (5) Transmissions necessary to assisting persons learning, or improving
   proficiency in, the international Morse code; and

   (6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information bulletins.

   (7) Transmissions of telemetry.

   [ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at  56 FR 56171 , Nov. 1, 1991;  71 FR 25982 , May 3, 2006;  71 FR 66462 , Nov. 15, 2006]

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