GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 95.191 (FRS Rule 1)    Eligibility and responsibility.
95.192 (FRS Rule 2)            Authorized locations.
95.193 (FRS Rule 3)            Types of communications.
95.194 (FRS Rule 4)            FRS units. Subpart B -- Family Radio Service (FRS)

GENERAL PROVISIONS

95.191 (FRS Rule 1) Eligibility and responsibility.

(a) Unless you are a representative of a foreign government, you are authorized by this rule to operate an FCC certified FRS unit in accordance with the rules in this subpart. No license will be issued.

(b) You are responsible for all communications that you make with the FRS unit. You must share each channel with other users. No channel is available for the private or exclusive use of any user.

95.192 (FRS Rule 2) Authorized locations.

(a) Provided that you comply with these rules, you are authorized to operate an FRS unit:

(1) Within or over any area of the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC; (this area includes the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands (50 islets and cays), American Samoa (seven islands), the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam Island) or

(2) Within or over any other area of the world, except within or over the territorial limits of areas where radio services are regulated by an agency of the United States other than the FCC or any foreign government (you are subject to its rules); or

(3) Aboard any vessel or aircraft registered in the United States, with the permission of the captain, that is within or over any area of the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC or upon or over international waters; or

(4) Aboard any unregistered vessel or aircraft owned or operated by a United States citizen or company that is within or over any area of the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC or upon or over international waters.

(5) You must operate the FRS unit only according to any applicable treaty to which the United States is a party. The FCC will make public notice of any such conditions.

(b) Your use of an FRS unit must not cause harmful interference to a FCC monitoring facility. Doing so could result in imposition of restrictions upon the operation of the FRS unit within 0.8 km (0.5 mile) of the facility by its Engineer-in-Charge. (Geographical coordinates of the facilities that require protection are listed in para. 0.121(c) of this chapter.)

(c) The FCC may impose additional restrictions on a FRS station if the station is located at a point within the National Radio Quiet Zone (an area within the States of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia). The Zone is the area bounded by:

(1) 39 Deg 15' N. on the North;
(2) 78 Deg 30' W. on the East;
(3) 37 Deg 30' N. on the South; and
(4) 80 Deg 30' W. on the West.

95.193 (FRS Rule 3) Types of communications.

(a) You may use an FRS unit to conduct two-way voice communications with another person. You may use the FRS unit to transmit one-way communications only to establish communications with another person, send an emergency message, provide traveler assistance, make a voice page, or to conduct a brief test.

(b) The FRS unit may transmit tones to make contact or to continue communications with a particular FRS unit. If the tone is audible (more than 300 Hertz), it must last no longer than 15 seconds at one time. If the tone is subaudible (300 Hertz or less), it may be transmitted continuously only while you are talking.

(c) You must not use an FRS unit in connection with any activity which is against federal, state or local law.

(d) You must, at all times and on all channels, give priority to emergency communication messages concerning the immediate safety of life or the immediate protection of property.

(e) No FRS unit may be interconnected to the public switched network.

95.194 (FRS Rule 4) FRS units.

(a) You may only use an FCC certified FRS unit. (You can identify an FCC certified FRS unit by the label placed on it by the manufacturer.)

(b) You must not make, or have made, any internal modification to an FRS unit. Any internal modification cancels the FCC certification and voids your authority to operate the unit in the FRS.

(c) You may not attach any antenna, power amplifier, or other apparatus to an FRS unit that has not been FCC certified as part of that FRS unit. There are no exceptions to this rule and attaching any such apparatus to a FRS unit cancels the FCC certification and voids everyone's authority to operate the unit in the FRS.

(d) Each FRS unit (a transmitter that operates or is intended to operate in the FRS) must be certified for use in the FRS in accordance with Subpart J of Part 2 of this chapter. 6.

95.401 (CB Rule 1) What are the Citizens Band Radio Services?

The Citizens Band Radio Services are:

(b) The Family Radio Service (FRS) -- a private, two-way, very short- distance voice communications service for facilitating family and group activities. The rules for this service are contained in Subpart B of this part.

These rules provide the technical standards to which each transmitter (apparatus that converts electrical energy received from a source into RF (radio frequency) energy capable of being radiated) used or intended to be used in a station authorized in any of the Personal Radio Services must comply. They also provide requirements for obtaining type acceptance of such transmitters. The Personal Radio Services are the GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service), the Family Radio Service (FRS), the R/C (Radio Control Radio Service), and the CB (Citizens Band Radio Service). For operating rules, see Part 95, subpart A-GMRS; subpart B-FRS; subpart C-R/C; and subpart D-CB. 5.
95.603 Type acceptance or certification required.
 

95.605 Type acceptance and certification procedures.

    Any entity must request type acceptance for its transmitter when the transmitter is used in the GMRS. R/C or CB Radio Service, or IVDS following the procedures in Part 2 of this chapter. Any entity must request certification for its transmitter when the transmitter is used in the FRS following the procedures in Subpart J of Part 2 of this chapter. 7. Sections 95.627 through 95.669 are redesignated as 95.629 through 95.671 and a new Section 95.627 is added to read as follows: Para. 95.627 FRS unit channel frequencies.

(a) The FRS unit channel frequencies are: Channel No. (MHz) 1. 462.5625 2. 462.5875 3. 462.6125 4. 462.6375 5. 462.6625 6. 462.6875 7. 462.7125 8. 467.5625 9. 467.5875 10. 467.6125 11. 467.6375 12. 467.6625 13. 467.6875 14. 467.7125

(b) Each FRS unit must be maintained within a frequency tolerance of 0.00025%.
 

(d) An FRS unit may transmit only emission type F3E. A non-voice emission is limited to selective calling or tone-operated squelch tones to establish or continue voice communications.

95.631 Emission bandwidth.

(c) The authorized bandwidth for emission type F3E transmitted by a FRS unit is 12.5 kHz. 10.

95.633 Unwanted radiation.

(b) The power of each unwanted emission shall be less than TP as specified in the applicable paragraph: Transmitter Emission type Applicable paragraphs GMRS....... A1D, A3E, F1D, G1D, F3E, G3E with filtering (1), (3), (7) A1D, A3E, F1D, G1D, F3E, G3E without filtering (5), (6), (7) H1D, J1D, R1D, H3E, J3E, R3E (2), (4), (7) FRS...... F3E with filtering (1), (3), (7) NOTE: Filtering refers to the requirement in Para. 95.635(b) R/C: 27 MHz band As specified in Para. 95.629(b) (1), (3), (7) 72-76 MHz band As specified in Para. 95.629(b) (1), (3), (7), (10), (11), (12) CB..... A1D, A3E (1), (3), (8), (9) H1D, J1D, R1D, H3E, J3E, R3E (2), (4), (8), (9) A1D, A3E type accepted before September 10, 1976 (1), (3), (7) H1D, J1D, R1D, H3E, J3E, R3E (2), (4), (7) type accepted before September 10, 1976

95.637 Maximum transmitter power.

(d) No FRS unit, under any condition of modulation, shall exceed 0.500 W effective radiated power (ERP).

95.645 FRS unit and R/C transmitter antennas.
    The antenna of each FRS unit, and the antenna of each R/C station transmitting in the 72-76 MHz band, must be an integral part of the transmitter. The antenna must have no gain (as compared to a half-wave dipole) and must be vertically polarized.
 

95.647 Power capability.
 
    No CB or R/C station transmitter or FRS unit shall incorporate provisions for increasing its transmitter power to any level in excess of the limit specified in 95.637.
 

95.649 Crystal control required.

    All transmitters used in the Personal Radio Services must be crystal controlled, except an R/C station that transmits in the 26-27 MHz frequency band, and an FRS unit.

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