FCC 80.324 Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 |
2007
Sec. 80.324 Transmission of distress message by station not itself in distress.
(a) A mobile station or a land station which learns that a mobile station is
in distress must transmit a distress message in any of the following cases:
(1) When the station in distress cannot transmit the distress message.
(2) When the master or person responsible for the ship, aircraft, or other
vehicle not in distress, or for the land station, believes that further help
is necessary.
(3) When, although not in a position to assist, it has heard a distress
message which has not been acknowledged. When a mobile station transmits
such a distress message, it must notify the authorities who may be able to
assist.
(b) Transmission must be made on the international distress frequencies or
on any other available frequency on which attention might be attracted.
(c) Transmission of the distress message must always be preceded by the call
indicated below, which must itself be preceded whenever possible by the
radiotelegraph or radiotelephone alarm signal. This call consists of:
(1) When radiotelegraphy is used:
(i) The signal DDD SOS SOS SOS DDD:
(ii) The word DE;
(iii) The call sign of the transmitting station, sent three times.
(2) When radiotelephony is used:
(i) The signal MAYDAY RELAY, spoken three times;
(ii) The words THIS IS;
(iii) The call sign or other identification of the transmitting station,
spoken three times.
(d) When the radiotelegraph alarm signal is used, an interval of two minutes
must be allowed, whenever this is considered necessary, before the
transmission of the call mentioned in paragraph (c)(1) of this section.
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.