"APPENDIX A – AMENDED March 22, 2007
"PROPOSED RULE CHANGES
"Part 97 of Chapter I of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulation
is
proposed to be amended as follows:
"Section 97.3(a)(8) is amended to read as follows:
"(8) Bandwidth. For a given class of emission, the width of the
frequency
band which is just sufficient to ensure the transmission of information
at
the rate and with the quality required under specified conditions (See
the
definition of Necessary Bandwidth in Section 2.1 of this Chapter and
Section
97.101(a) of this Part).
"Section 97.3(a)(42) is amended to read as follows:
"(42) Spurious Emission. For the purposes of this Part, emission on a
frequency or frequencies which are outside the allocated frequency band
and
which may be reduced without affecting the corresponding transmission
of
information. Spurious emissions include harmonic emissions, parasitic
emissions, intermodulation products and frequency conversion
products.
"Section 97.119 is amended to read as follows:
"§ 97.119 Station identification.
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"(b)…
(1) By a CW or MCW emission. When keyed by an automatic device used
only
for identification, the speed must not exceed 20 words per minute;
(2) Where phone emissions are permitted, by a phone emission in the
English
language. Use of a standard phonetic alphabet as an aid for correct
station
identification is encouraged;
(3) By the same emission as used for the communication.
(4) (Deleted)
"Section 97.305 is amended to read as follows:
"§ 97.305 Authorized emission types.
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"(b) A station may transmit a test emission on any frequency authorized
to
the control operator for brief periods for experimental purposes.
Test
transmissions are authorized in the segments 51-54 MHz, 144.1-148.0 MHz
and
on all bands above 222 MHz.
"(c) Pulse emissions are permitted on all bands authorized to the
control
operator above 902 MHz except in the 23 cm and 3 cm bands.
"(d) SS emissions are permitted on all bands authorized to the
control
operator above 222 MHz.
"(e) A station may transmit the following emission types on the
frequencies
indicated, as authorized to the control operator, subject to the
standards
specified in § 97.307(f) of this part; except that on frequencies below
28.0
MHz, a Station having a control operator holding a Novice Class or
Technician Class operator license may only transmit a CW emission using
the
international Morse code.
"Wavelength band Frequencies Emission Types Authorized
Standards, see §97.307(f), paragraph:
MF:
160 m Entire band RTTY, data (3)
-do- -do- Phone, image (1), (2)
"HF:
80 m Entire band RTTY, data (3)
75 m Entire band Phone, image (1), (2)
40 m 7.000-7.125 MHz RTTY, data (3)
40 m 7.075-7.100 MHz Phone, image (1), (2), (4)
40 m 7.125-7.300 MHz Phone, image (1), (2)
30 m Entire band RTTY, data (3)
20 m 14.00-14.15 MHz RTTY, data (3)
-do- 14.15-14.35 MHz Phone, image (1), (2)
17 m 18.068-18.110 MHz RTTY, data (3)
-do- 18.110-18.168 MHz Phone, image (1), (2)
15 m 21.0-21.2 MHz RTTY, data (3)
-do- 21.20-21.45 MHz Phone, image (1), (2)
12 m 24.89-24.93 MHz RTTY, data (3)
-do- 24.93-24.99 MHz Phone, image (1), (2)
"(f) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, a station may
transmit
any emission on any frequency authorized to the control operator subject
to
the following bandwidth limitations:
Wavelength
band Frequencies authorized Maximum bandwidth Standards
See §97.307(f) paragraph:
10 m 28.00-28.05 MHz 200 Hz
-do- 28.05-28.120 MHz 500 Hz
-do- 28.120-29.0 MHz 3 kHz (5)
-do- 29.0-29.7 MHz 16 kHz
6 m 50.0-50.1 MHz 200 Hz
-do- 50.1-50.3 MHz 3 kHz
-do- 50.3-54 MHz 100 kHz
2 m 144.0-144.1 MHz 200 Hz
-do- 144.1-144.3 MHz 3 kHz
-do- 144.3-148.0 MHz 100 kHz
1.25 m 219-220 MHz 100 kHz
-do- 222-225 MHz - (6)
70 cm Entire band - (6)
33 cm Entire band - (6)
23 cm Entire band - (6)
13 cm Entire band - (6)
9 cm Entire band - (6)
5 cm Entire band - (6)
3 cm Entire band - (6)
1.2 cm Entire band - (6)
6 mm Entire band - (6)
4 mm Entire band - (6)
2.5 mm Entire band - (6)
1 mm Entire band - (6)
- Above 275 GHz -
"Section 97.307(f) is amended to read as follows:
"§ 97.307 Emission standards.
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"(f) The following standards and limitations apply to transmissions on
the
frequencies specified in § 97.305(e) and (f) of this Part.
(1) No angle-modulated emission may have a modulation index greater than
1
at the highest modulation frequency.
(2) No non-phone emission shall exceed the bandwidth of a
communications
quality phone emission of the same modulation type. The total bandwidth
of
an independent sideband emission (having B as the first symbol), or a
multiplexed image and phone emission, shall not exceed that of a
communications quality A3E emission.
(3) The bandwidth of a RTTY or data emission must not exceed 3 kHz.
(4) Phone and image emissions may be transmitted only by stations located
in
ITU Regions 1 and 3, and by stations located within ITU Region 2 that
are
west of 130° West longitude or south of 20° North latitude.
(5) The 3 kHz maximum bandwidth does not apply to double-sideband
amplitude-modulated phone A3E emissions.
(6) No specific bandwidth limitations apply except that the entire
emission
must be within the allocated band to meet the requirements of
§97.307(d).
"Section 97.309 is amended to read as follows:
"§ 97.309 RTTY and data emission codes.
"(a) Where authorized by §97.305(e) and (f), an amateur station may
transmit
a RTTY or data emission using published digital codes for the purpose
of
facilitating communications.
"(b) When deemed necessary by the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to assure
compliance with the FCC Rules, a station must:
(1) Restrict transmissions of any digital code to the extent instructed;
and
(2) Maintain a record, convertible to the original information, of
all
digital communications transmitted."