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W3BE
CHECKLISTS
John B. Johnston, W3BE
Use these checklists duties before causing or allowing a station
to transmit on our amateur service frequencies.
Your
station licensee duties
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Make certain that your station license grant as shown on the FCC ULS consolidated license database has your correct name and mailing address
in the United States. Section 97.23. This does not apply to stations authorized for
alien reciprocal authorization. Sections 97.5(c), (d), and (e).
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Maintain physical control of your station. You do not have to own the station apparatus, but at
all times you must supervise access to, and the use of, your station apparatus. Section 97.5(a). When your station control is by telecommand, protect
it against making, willfully or negligently, unauthorized transmissions. Section 97.213(c).
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Select your station location. Section 97.5(a). It is authorized to transmit from practically anywhere the
FCC regulates our amateur service. You do not have to own or lease the property where your station
is located. Do not locate your station within one mile of an FCC monitoring facility. Section 97.13(b). Read BE Informed No. 59.
In ITU Region 2, the FCC regulates our amateur services within
the territorial limits of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, Caribbean Insular areas [Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,
United States Virgin Islands (50 islets and cays) and Navassa Island], and Johnston Island (Islets East, Johnston, North and
Sand) and Midway Island (Islets Eastern and Sand) in the Pacific Insular areas. In ITU Region 3, the FCC
regulates within the Pacific Insular territorial limits of American Samoa, Baker Island, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana
Islands, Guam Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Palmyra Island and Wake Island. Your
station may operate in ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3 on or over the high seas in areas where the service is not regulated by a foreign
government or by an agency of the U.S. Government other than the FCC. See Appendix 1 to Part
97.
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Notify the FAA and register with the FCC when your station antenna structure is located near a heliport or public-use
airport or exceeds 200 feet above ground level at its site. Follow the notification and registration procedures specified
in Part 17.
Section 17.7(b)
describes an imaginary surface above which notification and registration are required. It extends outward
and upward at one of the following slopes: For a heliport, the slope is 25:1 for a horizontal distance of 5,000 feet from
the nearest landing and takeoff area. For a small airport (longest runway length no more than 3,200 feet),
the slope is 50 to 1 for a horizontal distance of 10,000 feet from the nearest point on the nearest runway. For
a large airport (any runway length more than 3,200 feet), the slope is 100 to 1 for a horizontal distance of 20,000 feet from
the nearest point on the nearest runway.
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Provide at least one control point for your station. Section 97.109(a).
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Designate your station control operator. Section 97.103(b). The FCC will
presume that you are your station’s control operator, unless there is documentation to the contrary in your station
records.
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Provide a radio or wire line control link from its control point to your station when it is being remotely
controlled. Section 97.213. Incorporate provisions to limit transmissions to three
minutes should your control link fail. Section 97.213(b). Post at your station a copy of your station license and a
label with information on how you and your station control operator can be reached. Section 97.213(d).
□ When your station is capable of being remotely controlled, protect its control link from being
misused to make unauthorized transmissions.
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Make certain that your station is being operated in compliance with FCC rules. Section 97.103(a). Configure and
operate your station depending upon your interests, your resources, your ingenuity and your good judgment. Your
station may transmit in a multi-station system. The FCC does pre-approve systems in the amateur services.
□ Provide a means for your
station to transmit its identification announcements properly. Section 97.119 and Section 97.115(c) and (d). Read BE Informed No. 14.
□ Determine
the PEP input to your station antenna for each frequency band where your station will transmit. Where the
PEP exceeds that listed in Section 97.12(c)(1), reduce it suitably or perform the routine RF environmental evaluation prescribed
by Section 1.1307(b). Take
action to prevent the radiated fields created by your station from exceeding the limits for exposure to humans.
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Obtain approval from the master of the ship or pilot in command of the aircraft on which you intend to install your
station. Section 97.11(a). Make certain that that your station complies with the interference requirements
in Section 97.11(b) and the hazard provisions in Section 97.11(c).
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Maintain your station’s records. Include a copy of your license grant as shown on the FCC ULS consolidated license database, your license grant document, your control
operator designation records, your RF environmental determinations and evaluations, such records as may be required by a FCC
representative, instructions from the FCC and other documents relating to your station’s operation.
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Make your station and its records available for inspection by a FCC
representative. Section 97.103(c).
Your
control operator duties
Your class of operator license grant determines your operating privileges. Although it is issued
together with your primary station license grant, it is a separate authorization. Sections 97.509(e) and 97.23.
Before causing of allowing the station to transmit, make certain
that YOU:
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designated to be the control operator by the station licensee. Section 97.103(c).
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Are situated at the station’s control point while it is being locally or remotely controlled. Section 97.109(b).
□ Select
the station’s transmitting channel from those frequency bands authorized to your class of operator license.
Section 97.301.
□ Cooperate in selecting transmitting channels and in making the most effective use of
the amateur service frequencies Section 97.101(b).
□ Monitor reception for activity on each channel before causing or allowing the station
to transmit thereon. Read BE Informed No. 30 OTA5
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Observe all frequency sharing requirements for the band on which the station is transmitting. Section 97.303.
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Select the emission type from those authorized for the transmitting channel. Section 97.305.
□ Make your channel and emission selections such that the transmissions do not cause
interference to any radio communication or signal. Section 97.101(d).
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Prevent the station from transmitting on any channel being used by stations engaged in providing emergency communications.
Section 97.101(c).
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Make certain the station identification announcement is performed
properly. Section 97.119. At the end of an exchange of international third party communications, make
certain the station also transmits in the station identification announcement the call sign of the station with which a third
party message was exchanged. Section 97.115(d).
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certain the station makes no prohibited transmission. Section 97.113. Read BE Informed No. 3.
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Make certain the station does not transmit any message on behalf
of a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government whose administration has not made arrangements with the United States to allow such third party communications. Section 97.115. This prohibition does not apply to a message for any third party who is eligible to be
the control operator of the station nor when transmitting emergency or disaster relief communications.
□ Decide whether or not the third party is eligible to participate in station his or her
message. Section 97.115(b). If not ineligible, decide whether or not to allow the
third party to participate in stating his or her third party message. Section 97.115(b). If you decide to allow the third
party to participate in stating his or her third party message, be present at the control point and continuously monitor and
supervise the third party’s participation.
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Make certain the station does not intercommunicate with a station in a foreign country whose government has given notice that it objects to such intercommunications. Section 97.111(a)(1).
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Make certain the station’s transmissions to a station in a foreign country are limited to communications incidental
to the purposes of the amateur service and to remarks of a personal character. Section 97.117.
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participating in a message forwarding system, stop your station from forwarding any communications that violate the rules
in Part 97, once you become aware of their presence. Section 97.219.
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When the station is the first forwarding station in the system, make certain that communications are accepted from
only stations whose identity you have authenticated. Section 97.219.
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Make certain the station transmits in accordance with and good engineering and good amateur practice. Section 97.101(a) and BE Informed No. 30.
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Make certain the station uses the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications. Section 97.313(a).
NOTE: In Section 97.303(h)(1) , it says that in the 60 m band, amateur operators shall ensure that their emissions do not occupy more than 2.8
kHz centered on each center frequency.
January 1, 2012
Supersedes all prior editions
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