Part 80 — Stations in the Maritime Services
Subpart A — General Information
Subpart B — Applications and Licenses
- § 80.13— Station license required.
- § 80.15— Eligibility for station license.
- § 80.17— Administrative classes of stations.
- § 80.21— Supplemental information required.
- § 80.25— License term.
- § 80.37— One authorization for a plurality of stations.
- § 80.39— Authorized station location.
- § 80.41— Control points and dispatch points.
- § 80.43— Equipment acceptable for licensing.
- § 80.47— Operation during emergency.
- § 80.49— Construction and regional service requirements.
- § 80.51— Ship earth station licensing.
- § 80.53— Application for a portable ship station license.
- § 80.54— Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS)—System Licensing.
- § 80.55— Application for a fleet station license.
- § 80.57— Canada/U.S.A. channeling arrangement for VHF maritime public correspondence.
- § 80.59— Compulsory ship inspections.
- § 80.60— Partitioned licenses and disaggregated spectrum.
Subpart C — Operating Requirements and Procedures
- § 80.61— Commission inspection of stations.
- § 80.63— Maintenance of transmitter power.
- § 80.67— General facilities requirements for coast stations.
- § 80.68— Facilities requirements for public coast stations using telegraphy.
- § 80.69— Facilities requirement for public coast stations using telephony.
- § 80.70— Special conditions relative to coast station VHF facilities.
- § 80.71— Operating controls for stations on land.
- § 80.72— Antenna requirements for coast stations.
- § 80.74— Public coast station facilities for a telephony busy signal.
- § 80.76— Requirements for land station control points.
- § 80.79— Inspection of ship station by a foreign Government.
- § 80.80— Operating controls for ship stations.
- § 80.81— Antenna requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.86— International regulations applicable.
- § 80.87— Cooperative use of frequency assignments.
- § 80.88— Secrecy of communication.
- § 80.89— Unauthorized transmissions.
- § 80.90— Suspension of transmission.
- § 80.91— Order of priority of communications.
- § 80.92— Prevention of interference.
- § 80.93— Hours of service.
- § 80.94— Control by coast or Government station.
- § 80.95— Message charges.
- § 80.96— Maintenance tests.
- § 80.97— Radiotelegraph operating procedures.
- § 80.98— Radiotelegraph testing procedures.
- § 80.99— Radiotelegraph station identification.
- § 80.100— Morse code requirement.
- § 80.101— Radiotelephone testing procedures.
- § 80.102— Radiotelephone station identification.
- § 80.103— Digital selective calling (DSC) operating procedures.
- § 80.104— Identification of radar transmissions not authorized.
- § 80.105— General obligations of coast stations.
- § 80.106— Intercommunication in the mobile service.
- § 80.107— Service of private coast stations and marine-utility stations.
- § 80.109— Transmission to a plurality of mobile stations by a public coast station.
- § 80.111— Radiotelephone operating procedures for coast stations.
- § 80.114— Authority of the master.
- § 80.115— Operational conditions for use of associated ship units.
- § 80.116— Radiotelephone operating procedures for ship stations.
- § 80.121— Public coast stations using telegraphy.
- § 80.122— Public coast stations using facsimile and data.
- § 80.123— Service to stations on land.
- § 80.131— Radioprinter operations.
- § 80.133— Private coast stations using facsimile in Alaska.
- § 80.141— General provisions for ship stations.
- § 80.142— Ships using radiotelegraphy.
- § 80.143— Required frequencies for radiotelephony.
- § 80.147— Watch on 2182 kHz.
- § 80.148— Watch on 156.8 MHz (Channel 16).
Subpart D — Operator Requirements
- § 80.151— Classification of operator licenses and endorsements.
- § 80.153— Coast station operator requirements.
- § 80.155— Ship station operator requirements.
- § 80.156— Control by operator.
- § 80.157— Radio officer defined.
- § 80.159— Operator requirements of Title III of the Communications Act and the Safety Convention.
- § 80.161— Operator requirements for subpart T vessels on the Great Lakes.
- § 80.163— Operator requirements of the Bridge-to-Bridge Act.
- § 80.167— Limitations on operators.
- § 80.169— Operators required to adjust transmitters or radar.
- § 80.175— Availability of operator licenses.
- § 80.177— When operator license is not required.
- § 80.179— Unattended operation.
Subpart E — General Technical Standards
- § 80.203— Authorization of transmitters for licensing.
- § 80.205— Bandwidths.
- § 80.207— Classes of emission.
- § 80.209— Transmitter frequency tolerances.
- § 80.211— Emission limitations.
- § 80.213— Modulation requirements.
- § 80.215— Transmitter power.
- § 80.217— Suppression of interference aboard ships.
- § 80.219— Special requirements for narrow-band direct-printing (NB-DP) equipment.
- § 80.221— Special requirements for automatically generating the radiotelephone alarm signal.
- § 80.223— Special requirements for survival craft stations.
- § 80.225— Requirements for selective calling equipment.
- § 80.227— Special requirements for protection from RF radiation.
- § 80.229— Special requirements for automatic link establishment (ALE).
- § 80.231— Technical Requirements for Class B Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment.
- § 80.233— Technical requirements for Automatic Identification System Search and Rescue Transmitters (AIS-SART) equipment.
Subpart F — Equipment Authorization for Compulsory Ships
- § 80.251— Scope.
- § 80.268— Technical requirements for radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.271— Technical requirements for portable survival craft radiotelephone transceivers.
- § 80.273— Radar standards.
- § 80.275— Technical Requirements for Class A Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment.
- § 80.277— Ship Security Alert System (SSAS).
- § 80.288— Direction finding and homing equipment.
- § 80.289— Requirements for radio direction finder.
- § 80.290— Auxiliary receiving antenna.
- § 80.291— Installation of direction finder.
- § 80.292— Contingent acceptance of direction finder calibration.
- § 80.293— Check bearings by authorized ship personnel.
Subpart G — Safety Watch Requirements and Procedures
- § 80.301— Watch requirements.
- § 80.302— Notice of discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of service involving a distress watch.
- § 80.303— Watch on 156.800 MHz (Channel 16).
- § 80.304— Watch requirement during silence periods.
- § 80.305— Watch requirements of the Communications Act and the Safety Convention.
- § 80.307— Compulsory use of radiotelegraph auto alarm.
- § 80.308— Watch required for subpart T vessels on the Great Lakes.
- § 80.309— Watch required by the Bridge-to-Bridge Act.
- § 80.310— Watch required by voluntary vessels.
- § 80.311— Authority for distress transmission.
- § 80.312— Priority of distress transmissions.
- § 80.313— Frequencies for use in distress.
- § 80.314— Distress communications.
- § 80.317— Radiotelegraph and radiotelephone alarm signals.
- § 80.318— Use of alarm signals.
- § 80.319— Radiotelegraph distress call and message transmission procedure.
- § 80.320— Radiotelephone distress call and message transmission procedure.
- § 80.321— Acknowledgement of receipt of distress message.
- § 80.322— Form of acknowledgement.
- § 80.323— Information furnished by an acknowledging station.
- § 80.324— Transmission of distress message by station not itself in distress.
- § 80.325— Control of distress traffic.
- § 80.326— Notification of resumption of normal working.
- § 80.327— Urgency signals and messages.
- § 80.329— Safety signals and messages.
- § 80.331— Bridge-to-bridge communication procedure.
- § 80.332— Equipment to aid search and rescue operations.
- § 80.333— Stations in the maritime mobile-satellite service.
- § 80.334— False distress alerts.
- § 80.335— Procedures for canceling false distress alerts.
Subpart H — Frequencies
- § 80.355— Distress, urgency, safety, call and reply Morse code frequencies.
- § 80.357— Working frequencies for Morse code and data transmission.
- § 80.359— Frequencies for digital selective calling (DSC).
- § 80.361— Frequencies for narrow-band direct-printing (NBDP), radioprinter and data transmissions.
- § 80.363— Frequencies for facsimile.
- § 80.364— Frequencies for VHF digital small message services (VDSMS).
- § 80.367— General uses—radiotelephony.
- § 80.369— Distress, urgency, safety, call and reply frequencies.
- § 80.371— Public correspondence frequencies.
- § 80.373— Private communications frequencies.
- § 80.374— Provisions for frequencies in the 4000-4063 and the 8100-8195 kHz bands shared with the fixed service.
- § 80.375— Radiodetermination frequencies.
- § 80.376— Radio buoy operations.
- § 80.377— Frequencies for ship earth stations.
- § 80.379— Maritime frequencies assignable to aircraft stations.
- § 80.381— Frequencies for operational fixed stations.
- § 80.383— Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) system frequencies.
- § 80.385— Frequencies for automated systems.
- § 80.387— Frequencies for Alaska fixed stations.
- § 80.389— Frequencies for maritime support stations.
- § 80.393— Frequencies for AIS stations.
Subpart I — Station Documents
Subpart J — Public Coast Stations
- § 80.453— Scope of communications.
- § 80.467— Duplication of VHF service.
- § 80.469— Maritime mobile repeater stations in Alaska.
- § 80.471— Discontinuance or impairment of service.
- § 80.475— Scope of service of the Automated Maritime Telecommunications System (AMTS).
- § 80.477— AMTS points of communication.
- § 80.479— Assignment and use of frequencies for AMTS.
- § 80.481— Alternative technical parameters for AMTS transmitters.
Subpart K — Private Coast Stations and Marine Utility Stations
- § 80.501— Supplemental eligibility requirements.
- § 80.503— Cooperative use of facilities.
- § 80.505— Points of communication.
- § 80.507— Scope of service.
- § 80.513— Frequency coordination.
- § 80.514— Marine VHF frequency coordinating committee(s).
- § 80.515— Limitations on use.
- § 80.517— Time limitation on communication.
- § 80.519— Station identification.
Subpart L — Operational Fixed Stations
Subpart M — Stations in the Radiodetermination Service
Subpart N — Maritime Support Stations
Subpart O — Alaska Fixed Stations
Subpart P — Standards for Computing Public Coast Station VHF Coverage
- § 80.753— Signal strength requirements at the service area contour.
- § 80.755— Applicability.
- § 80.757— Topographical data.
- § 80.759— Average terrain elevation.
- § 80.761— Conversion graphs.
- § 80.763— Effective antenna height.
- § 80.765— Effective radiated power.
- § 80.767— Propagation curve.
- § 80.769— Shadow loss.
- § 80.771— Method of computing coverage.
- § 80.773— Co-channel interference protection.
Subpart R — Technical Equipment Requirements for Cargo Vessels Not Subject to Subpart W
- § 80.851— Applicability.
- § 80.853— Radiotelephone station.
- § 80.854— Radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.855— Radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.858— Radiotelephone receiver.
- § 80.859— Main power supply.
- § 80.860— Reserve power supply.
- § 80.861— Required capacity.
- § 80.862— Proof of capacity.
- § 80.863— Antenna system.
- § 80.864— Emergency electric lights.
- § 80.865— Radiotelephone station clock.
- § 80.866— Spare antenna.
- § 80.867— Ship station tools, instruction books, circuit diagrams and testing equipment.
- § 80.868— Card of instructions.
- § 80.869— Test of radiotelephone station.
- § 80.871— VHF radiotelephone station.
- § 80.872— The VHF radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.873— VHF radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.874— VHF radiotelephone receiver.
- § 80.875— VHF radiotelephone power supply.
- § 80.876— VHF radiotelephone antenna system.
- § 80.877— Controls and indicators required for VHF radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.880— Vessel radio equipment.
- § 80.881— Equipment requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.882— 2182 kHz watch.
Subpart S — Compulsory Radiotelephone Installations for Small Passenger Boats
- § 80.901— Applicability.
- § 80.903— Inspection of radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.905— Vessel radio equipment.
- § 80.907— Principal operating position.
- § 80.909— Radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.911— VHF transmitter.
- § 80.913— Radiotelephone receivers.
- § 80.915— Main power supply.
- § 80.917— Reserve power supply.
- § 80.919— Required capacity.
- § 80.921— Proof of capacity.
- § 80.923— Antenna system.
- § 80.925— Electric light.
- § 80.927— Antenna radio frequency indicator.
- § 80.929— Nameplate.
- § 80.931— Test of radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.933— General small passenger vessel exemptions.
- § 80.935— Station clock.
Subpart T — Radiotelephone Installation Required for Vessels on the Great Lakes
- § 80.951— Applicability.
- § 80.953— Inspection and certification.
- § 80.955— Radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.956— Required frequencies and uses.
- § 80.957— Principal operating position.
- § 80.959— Radiotelephone transmitter.
- § 80.961— Radiotelephone receiver.
- § 80.963— Main power supply.
- § 80.965— Reserve power supply.
- § 80.967— Antenna system.
- § 80.969— Illumination of operating controls.
- § 80.971— Test of radiotelephone installation.
Subpart U — Radiotelephone Installations Required by the Bridge-to-Bridge Act
- § 80.1001— Applicability.
- § 80.1003— Station required.
- § 80.1005— Inspection of station.
- § 80.1007— Bridge-to-bridge radiotelephone installation.
- § 80.1009— Principal operator and operating position.
- § 80.1011— Transmitter.
- § 80.1013— Receiver.
- § 80.1015— Power supply.
- § 80.1017— Antenna system.
- § 80.1019— Antenna radio frequency indicator.
- § 80.1021— Nameplate.
- § 80.1023— Test of radiotelephone installation.
Subpart V — Emergency Position Indicating Radiobeacons (EPIRB's)
Subpart W — Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
- § 80.1065— Applicability.
- § 80.1067— Inspection of station.
- § 80.1069— Maritime sea areas.
- § 80.1071— Exemptions.
- § 80.1073— Radio operator requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.1074— Radio maintenance personnel for at-sea maintenance.
- § 80.1075— Radio records.
- § 80.1077— Frequencies.
- § 80.1081— Functional requirements.
- § 80.1083— Ship radio installations.
- § 80.1085— Ship radio equipment—General.
- § 80.1087— Ship radio equipment—Sea area A1.
- § 80.1089— Ship radio equipment—Sea areas A1 and A2.
- § 80.1091— Ship radio equipment—Sea areas A1, A2, and A3.
- § 80.1093— Ship radio equipment—Sea areas A1, A2, A3, and A4.
- § 80.1095— Survival craft equipment.
- § 80.1099— Ship sources of energy.
- § 80.1101— Performance standards.
- § 80.1103— Equipment authorization.
- § 80.1105— Maintenance requirements.
- § 80.1107— Test of radiotelephone station.
- § 80.1109— Distress, urgency, and safety communications.
- § 80.1111— Distress alerting.
- § 80.1113— Transmission of a distress alert.
- § 80.1114— False distress alerts.
- § 80.1115— Transmission of a distress alert by a station not itself in distress.
- § 80.1117— Procedure for receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts.
- § 80.1119— Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by coast stations and coast earth stations.
- § 80.1121— Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by ship stations and ship earth stations.
- § 80.1123— Watch requirements for ship stations.
- § 80.1125— Search and rescue coordinating communications.
- § 80.1127— On-scene communications.
- § 80.1129— Locating and homing signals.
- § 80.1131— Transmissions of urgency communications.
- § 80.1133— Transmission of safety communications.
- § 80.1135— Transmission of maritime safety information.
Subpart X — Voluntary Radio Installations
- § 80.1151— Voluntary radio operations.
- § 80.1153— Station log and radio watches.
- § 80.1155— Radioprinter.
- § 80.1157— Facsimile.
- § 80.1159— Narrow-band direct-printing (NB-DP).
- § 80.1161— Emergency position indicating radiobeacon (EPIRB).
- § 80.1165— Assignment and use of frequencies.
- § 80.1171— Assignment and use of frequencies.
- § 80.1175— Scope of communications of on-board stations.
- § 80.1177— Assignment and use of frequencies.
- § 80.1179— On-board repeater limitations.
- § 80.1181— Station identification.
- § 80.1183— Remote control for maneuvering or navigation.
- § 80.1185— Supplemental eligibility for mobile-satellite stations.
- § 80.1187— Scope of communication.
- § 80.1189— Portable ship earth stations.
- § 80.1201— Special provisions for cable-repair ship stations.