FCC 74.431 Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 |
2007
Sec. 74.431 Special rules applicable to remote pickup stations.
(a) Remote pickup mobile stations may be used for the transmission of
material from the scene of events which occur outside the studio back to
studio or production center. The transmitted material shall be intended for
the licensee's own use and may be made available for use by any other
broadcast station or cable system.
(b) Remote pickup mobile or base stations may be used for communications
related to production and technical support of the remote program. This
includes cues, orders, dispatch instructions, frequency coordination,
establishing microwave links, and operational communications. Operational
communications are alerting tones and special signals of short duration used
for telemetry or control.
(c) Remote pickup mobile or base stations may communicate with any other
station licensed under this subpart.
(d) Remote pickup mobile stations may be operated as a vehicular repeater to
relay program material and communications between stations licensed under
this subpart. Precautions shall be taken to avoid interference to other
stations and the vehicular repeater shall only be activated by hand-carried
or pack-carried units.
(e) The output of hand-carried or pack-carried transmitter units used with a
vehicular repeater is limited to 2.5 watts. The output of a vehicular
repeater transmitter used as a talkback unit on an additional frequency is
limited to 2.5 watts.
(f) Remote pickup base and mobile stations in Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands may be used for any purpose related to the
programming or technical operation of a broadcasting station, except for
transmission intended for direct reception by the general public.
(g) [Reserved]
(h) In the event that normal aural studio to transmitter circuits are
damaged, stations licensed under Subpart D may be used to provide temporary
circuits for a period not exceeding 30 days without further authority from
the Commission necessary to continue broadcasting.
(i) Remote pickup mobile or base stations may be used for activities
associated with the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and similar emergency
survival communications systems. Drills and test are also permitted on these
stations, but the priority requirements of Sec. 74.403(b) must be observed in
such cases.
[ 51 FR 4602 , Feb. 6, 1986, as amended at 68 FR 12764 , Mar. 17, 2003]
CiteFind - See documents on FCC website that
cite this rule
Want to support this service?
Thanks!
Report errors in
this rule. Since these rules are converted to HTML by machine, it's possible errors have been made. Please
help us improve these rules by clicking the Report FCC Rule Errors link to report an error.