§ 97.113   Prohibited transmissions.

   (a) No amateur station shall transmit:

   (1) Communications specifically prohibited elsewhere in this part;

   (2)  Communications  for  hire or for material compensation, direct or
   indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules;

   (3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a
   pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer, with
   the following exceptions:

   (i) A station licensee or station control operator may participate on behalf
   of an employer in an emergency preparedness or disaster readiness test or
   drill,  limited  to  the duration and scope of such test or drill, and
   operational testing immediately prior to such test or drill. Tests or drills
   that are not government-sponsored are limited to a total time of one hour
   per week; except that no more than twice in any calendar year, they may be
   conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours.

   (ii)  An  amateur  operator  may notify other amateur operators of the
   availability for sale or trade of apparatus normally used in an amateur
   station, provided that such activity is not conducted on a regular basis.

   (iii)  A  control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a
   teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used by
   that  teacher  as  a  part  of classroom instruction at an educational
   institution.

   (iv) The control operator of a club station may accept compensation for the
   periods of time when the station is transmitting telegraphy practice or
   information bulletins, provided that the station transmits such telegraphy
   practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours per week; schedules operations
   on at least six amateur service MF and HF bands using reasonable measures to
   maximize  coverage;  where  the schedule of normal operating times and
   frequencies  is  published  at  least 30 days in advance of the actual
   transmissions; and where the control operator does not accept any direct or
   indirect compensation for any other service as a control operator.

   (4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere
   in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act;
   messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as
   otherwise provided herein; obscene or indecent words or language; or false
   or deceptive messages, signals or identification.

   (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be furnished
   alternatively through other radio services.

   (b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, nor may
   an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as specifically
   provided in these rules; nor shall an amateur station engage in any activity
   related to program production or news gathering for broadcasting purposes,
   except that communications directly related to the immediate safety of human
   life or the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to
   broadcasters  for  dissemination to the public where no other means of
   communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event.

   (c) No station shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from any type
   of radio station other than an amateur station, except propagation and
   weather forecast information intended for use by the general public and
   originated from United States Government stations, and communications,
   including  incidental  music,  originating on United States Government
   frequencies between a manned spacecraft and its associated Earth stations.
   Prior approval for manned spacecraft communications retransmissions must be
   obtained  from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Such
   retransmissions must be for the exclusive use of amateur radio operators.
   Propagation,  weather  forecasts, and manned spacecraft communications
   retransmissions  may  not  be  conducted  on a regular basis, but only
   occasionally, as an incident of normal amateur radio communications.

   (d) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater, or space station, may
   automatically retransmit the radio signals of other amateur station.

   [ 58 FR 43072 , Aug. 13, 1993;  58 FR 47219 , Sept. 8, 1993, as amended at  71 FR 25982 , May 3, 2006;  71 FR 66462 , Nov. 15, 2006;  75 FR 46857 , Aug. 4, 2010;
    79 FR 35291 , June 20, 2014]

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