FCC 97.205 Revised as of October 1, 2005
Goto Year:2004 |
2006
Sec. 97.205 Repeater station.
(a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician, General,
Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be a repeater. A holder
of a Technician, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license
may be the control operator of a repeater, subject to the privileges of the
class of operator license held.
(b) A repeater may receive and retransmit only on the 10 m and shorter
wavelength frequency bands except the 28.0–29.5 MHz, 50.0–51.0 MHz,
144.0–144.5 MHz, 145.5–146.0 MHz, 222.00–222.15 MHz, 431.0–433.0 Mhz, and
435.0–438.0 Mhz segments.
(c) Where the transmissions of a repeater cause harmful interference to
another repeater, the two station licensees are equally and fully
responsible for resolving the interference unless the operation of one
station is recommended by a frequency coordinator and the operation of the
other station is not. In that case, the licensee of the non-coordinated
repeater has primary responsibility to resolve the interference.
(d) A repeater may be automatically controlled.
(e) Ancillary functions of a repeater that are available to users on the
input channel are not considered remotely controlled functions of the
station. Limiting the use of a repeater to only certain user stations is
permissible.
(f) [Reserved]
(g) The control operator of a repeater that retransmits inadvertently
communications that violate the rules in this part is not accountable for
the violative communications.
(h) The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to repeaters that transmit
on the 1.2 cm or shorter wavelength bands. Before establishing a repeater
within 16 km (10 miles) of the Arecibo Observatory or before changing the
transmitting frequency, transmitter power, antenna height or directivity of
an existing repeater, the station licensee must give written notification
thereof to the Interference Office, Arecibo Observatory, HC3 Box 53995,
Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00612, in writing or electronically, of the technical
parameters of the proposal. Licensees who choose to transmit information
electronically should e-mail to: prcz@naic.edu.
(1) The notification shall state the geographical coordinates of the antenna
(NAD–83 datum), antenna height above mean sea level (AMSL), antenna center
of radiation above ground level (AGL), antenna directivity and gain,
proposed frequency and FCC Rule Part, type of emission, effective radiated
power, and whether the proposed use is itinerant. Licensees may wish to
consult interference guidelines provided by Cornell University.
(2) If an objection to the proposed operation is received by the FCC from
the Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, within 20 days from the date
of notification, the FCC will consider all aspects of the problem and take
whatever action is deemed appropriate. The licensee will be required to make
reasonable efforts in order to resolve or mitigate any potential
interference problem with the Arecibo Observatory.
[ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 4613 , Feb. 9, 1990; 56 FR 32517 , July 17, 1991; 58 FR 64385 , Dec. 7, 1993; 59 FR 18975 , Apr. 21, 1994;
62 FR 55536 , Oct. 27, 1997; 63 FR 41205 , Aug. 3, 1998; 63 FR 68980 , Dec. 14,
1998; 69 FR 24997 , May 5, 2004; 70 FR 31374 , June 1, 2005]
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