Operating Procedures for Distress and Safety Communications

  1. Law
  2. CFR 47
  3. Telecommunication
  4. Federal Communications Commission
  5. Safety and Special Radio Services
  6. Stations in the Maritime Services
  7. Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
  8. Operating Procedures for Distress and Safety Communications

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Section
80.1109

Distress, urgency, and safety communications.

Section
80.1111

Distress alerting.

Section
80.1113

Transmission of a distress alert.

Section
80.1114

False distress alerts.

Section
80.1115

Transmission of a distress alert by a station not itself in distress.

Section
80.1117

Procedure for receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts.

Section
80.1119

Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by coast stations and coast earth stations.

Section
80.1121

Receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts by ship stations and ship earth stations.

Section
80.1123

Watch requirements for ship stations.

Section
80.1125

Search and rescue coordinating communications.

Section
80.1127

On-scene communications.

Section
80.1129

Locating and homing signals.

Section
80.1131

Transmissions of urgency communications.

Section
80.1133

Transmission of safety communications.

Section
80.1135

Transmission of maritime safety information.