47 U.S.C. § 320 — Stations liable to interfere with distress signals; designation and regulation
submitted 92 years ago by ch. 652 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 72 words · no verdicts yet
The Commission can identify radio stations that might interfere with ship distress signals. Those flagged stations must keep a licensed operator listening on distress frequencies. This applies the whole time the station's transmitter is running.
This section protects ship* distress signals from radio interference.
The Commission can designate any radio station whose signals it believes are likely to interfere with sending or receiving ships' distress signals.
Once a station is designated this way, it must keep a licensed radio operator listening on the frequencies set aside for distress signals and related communications. This listening requirement applies for the entire time the station's transmitter is operating.
The Commission is authorized to designate from time to time radio stations the communications or signals of which, in its opinion, are liable to interfere with the transmission or reception of distress signals of ships. Such stations are required to keep a licensed radio operator listening in on the frequencies designated for signals of distress and radio communications relating thereto during the entire period the transmitter of such station is in operation.
Source credit: (June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title III, § 320, 48 Stat. 1090.)
- 1934Enacted · Act of June 19, 1934, ch. 652 · 48 Stat. 1090
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