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- The following is the 1993 change to FCC rule 97.113
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- 97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
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- (a) No amateur station shall transmit:
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- (1) Communications specifically prohibited elsewhere in this Part:
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- (2) Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or
- indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules;
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- (3) Communications in which the station licensee or control
- operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf
- of an employer. Amateur operators may, however, 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;
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- (4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided
- elsewhere in this Section; Communications intended to facilitate a
- criminal act; Messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure the meaning
- thereof, except as otherwise provided herein; Obscene or indecent words
- or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals, or identification;
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- (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be
- furnished alternatively through other radio services.
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- (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
- newsgathering 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) 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.
- (d) A 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.
- (e) 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 space shuttle and its associated
- Earth stations. Prior approval for shuttle retransmissions must be
- obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Such
- retransmissions must be for the exclusive use of amateur operators.
- Propagation, weather forecasts, and shuttle retransmissions may not be
- conducted on a regular basis, but only occasionally, as an incident of
- normal amateur radio communications.
- (f) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater or space
- station, may automatically retransmit the radio signals of other
- amateur stations.