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FCC 80.251
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 | 2009
  Sec.  80.251   Scope.

   (a) This subpart gives the general technical requirements for certification
   of  equipment  used  on  compulsory  ships.  Such  equipment  includes
   automatic-alarm-signal keying devices, survival craft radio equipment, watch
   receivers, radar equipment and Ship Security Alert System (SSAS) equipment.

   (b) The equipment described in this subpart must be certificated.

   (c)  The term transmitter means the transmitter unit and all auxiliary
   equipment  necessary  to make this unit operate as a main or emergency
   transmitter  in  a ship station at sea. Each separate motor-generator,
   rectifier, or other unit required to convert the ship primary power to the
   phase, frequency, or voltage necessary to energize the transmitter unit is
   considered a component of the transmitter.

   (d) Average ship station antenna means an actual antenna installed on board
   ship having a capacitance of 750 picofarads and an effective resistance of 4
   ohms at a frequency of 500 kHz, or an artificial antenna having the same
   electrical characteristics.

   [ 51 FR 31213 , Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at  63 FR 36606 , July 7, 1998;  68 FR 46966 , Aug. 7, 2003;  73 FR 4483 , Jan. 25, 2008]


Goto Section: 80.229 | 80.268

Goto Year: 2007 | 2009
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