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SUBPART E - PROVIDING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
97.401 Operation during a disaster.
(a) When normal communication systems are overloaded, damaged
or disrupted because a disaster has occurred, or is likely to
occur, in an area where the amateur service is regulated by the
FCC, an amateur station may make transmissions necessary to meet
essential communication needs and facilitate relief actions.
(b) When normal communication systems are overloaded, damaged
or disrupted because a natural disaster has occurred, or is likely
to occur, in an area where the amateur service is not regulated by
the FCC, a station assisting in meeting essential communication
needs and facilitating relief actions may do so only in accord with
ITU Resolution No. 640 (Geneva, 1979). The 80 m, 75 m, 40 m, 30
m, 20 m, 17 m, 15 m, 12 m, and 2 m bands may be used for these
purposes.
(c) When a disaster disrupts normal communication systems in
a particular area, the FCC may declare a temporary state of
communication emergency. The declaration will set forth any
special conditions and special rules to be observed by amateur
stations during the communication emergency. A request for a
declaration of a temporary state of emergency should be directed
to the EIC in the area concerned.
(d) A station in, or within 92.6 km of, Alaska may transmit
emissions J3E and R3E on the channel at 5.176 MHz for emergency
communications. The channel must be shared with stations licensed
in the Alaska-private fixed service. The transmitter power must
not exceed 150 W.
97.403 Safety of life and protection of property.
No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur
station of any means of radiocommunication at its disposal to
provide essential communication needs in connection with the
immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property
when normal communication systems are not available.
97.405 Station in distress.
(a) No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur
station in distress of any means at its disposal to attract
attention, make known its condition and location, and obtain
assistance.
(b) No provision of these rules prevents the use by a station,
in the exceptional circumstances described in paragraph (a), of
this section, of any means of radiocommunications at its disposal
to assist a station in distress.
97.407 RACES operation.
(a) No station may transmit in RACES unless it is an
FCC-licensed primary, club, or military recreation station and it
is certified by a civil defense organization as registered with
that organization, or it is an FCC-licensed RACES station. No
person may be the control operator of a RACES station, or may be
the control operator of an amateur station transmitting in RACES
unless that person holds a FCC-issued amateur operator license and
is certified by a civil defense organization as enrolled in that
organization.
(b) The frequency bands and segments and emissions authorized
to the control operator are available to stations transmitting
communications in RACES on a shared basis with the amateur service.
In the event of an emergency which necessitates the invoking of the
President's War Emergency Powers under the provisions of Section
706 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 606,
RACES stations and amateur stations participating in RACES may only
transmit on the following frequencies:
(1) The 1800-1825 kHz, 1975-2000 kHz, 3.50-3.55 MHz,
3.93-3.98 MHz, 3.984-4.000 MHz, 7.079-7.125 MHz, 7.245-7.255 MHz,
10.10-10.15 MHz, 14.047-14.053 MHz, 14.22-14.23 MHz, 14.331-14.350
MHz, 21.047-21.053 MHz, 21.228-21.267 MHz, 28.55-28.75 MHz,
29.237-29.273 MHz, 29.45-29.65 MHz, 50.35-50.75 MHz, 52-54 MHz,
144.50-145.71 MHz, 146-148 MHz, 2390-2450 MHz segments;
(2) The 1.25 m, 70 cm and 23 cm bands; and
(3) The channels at 3.997 MHz and 53.30 MHz may be used
in emergency areas when required to make initial contact with a
military unit and for communications with military stations on
matters requiring coordination.
(c) A RACES station may only communicate with:
(1) Another RACES station;
(2) An amateur station registered with a civil defense
organization;
(3) A United States Government station authorized by the
responsible agency to intercommunicate with RACES stations;
(4) A station in a service regulated by the FCC whenever
such communication is authorized by the FCC.
(d) An amateur station registered with a civil defense
organization may only communicate with:
(1) A RACES station licensed to the civil defense
organization with which the amateur station is registered;
(2) The following stations upon authorization of the
responsible civil defense official for the organization in which
the amateur station is registered:
(i) A RACES station licensed to another civil
defense organization;
(ii) An amateur station registered with the same or
another civil defense organization;
(iii) A United States Government station authorized
by the responsible agency to communicate with RACES stations; and
(iv) A station in a service regulated by the FCC
whenever such communication is authorized by the FCC.
(e) All communications transmitted in RACES must be
specifically authorized by the civil defense organization for the
area served. Only civil defense communications of the following
types may be transmitted:
(1) Messages concerning impending or actual conditions
jeopardizing the public safety, or affecting the national defense
or security during periods of local, regional, or national civil
emergencies;
(2) Messages directly concerning the immediate safety of
life of individuals, the immediate protection of property,
maintenance of law and order, alleviation of human suffering and
need, and the combating of armed attack or sabotage;
(3) Messages directly concerning the accumulation and
dissemination of public information or instructions to the civilian
population essential to the activities of the civil defense
organization or other authorized governmental or relief agencies;
and
(4) Communications for RACES training drills and tests
necessary to ensure the establishment and maintenance of orderly
and efficient operation of the RACES as ordered by the responsible
civil defense organizations served. Such drills and tests may not
exceed a total time of 1 hour per week. With the approval of the
chief officer for emergency planning the applicable State,
Commonwealth, District or territory, however, such tests and drills
may be conducted for a period not to exceed 72 hours no more than
twice in any calendar year.