Sec. 80.834  Survival craft portable two-way radiotelephone.

    (a) Survival craft portable two-way radiotelephone transceivers must 
meet the provisions of Sec. 80.271.
    (b) The equipment must be stowed in the radio room, on the bridge or 
in a location readily accessible for transfer to life boats when not 
being used by shipboard personnel to satisfy the vessel's operational 
requirements.
    (c) When not in routine use the survival craft two-way 
radiotelephone transceivers must be operationally tested once a week. 
Operational test should be conducted with equipment separated as far as 
practical and in the case of UHF equipment must include tests on the 
frequency 457.525 MHz.
    (d) All survival craft two-way radiotelephones associated with a 
ship must operate in the same frequency band (VHF or UHF).