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FCC 90.203
Revised as of October 1, 2011
Goto Year:2010 |
2012
§ 90.203 Certification required.
(a) Except as specified in paragraphs (b) and (l) of this section, each
transmitter utilized for operation under this part and each transmitter
marketed as set forth in § 2.803 of this chapter must be of a type
which has been certificated for use under this part.
(1) Effective October 16, 2002, except in the 1427-1432 MHz band, an
equipment approval may no longer be obtained for in-hospital medical
telemetry equipment operating under the provisions of this part. The
requirements for obtaining an approval for medical telemetry equipment
after this date are found in subpart H of part 95 of this chapter.
(2) Any manufacturer of radio transmitting equipment (including signal
boosters) to be used in these services may request certification for
such equipment following the procedures set forth in subpart J of part
2 of this chapter. Certification for an individual transmitter or
signal booster also may be requested by an applicant for a station
authorization by following the procedure set forth in part 2 of this
chapter. Such equipment if approved will be individually enumerated on
the station authorization.
(b) Certification is not required for the following:
(1) Transmitters used in developmental operations in accordance with
subpart Q.
(2) Transmitters used for police zone and interzone stations authorized
as of January 1, 1965.
(3) Transmitting equipment used in the band 1427-1435 MHz.
(4) Transmitters used in radiolocation stations in accordance with
subpart F authorized prior to January 1, 1974, for public safety and
land transportation applications (old parts 89 and 93).
(5) Transmitters used in radiolocation stations in accordance with
subpart F authorized for industrial applications (old part 91) prior to
January 1, 1978.
(6) [Reserved]
(7) Transmitters imported and marketed prior to September 1, 1996 for
use by LMS systems.
(c) Radiolocation transmitters for use in public safety and land
transportation applications marketed prior to January 1, 1974, must
meet the applicable technical standards in this part, pursuant to
§ 2.803 of this chapter.
(d) Radiolocation transmitters for use in public safety and land
transportation applications marketed after January 1, 1974, must comply
with the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section.
(e) Except as provided in paragraph (g) of this section, transmitters
designed to operate above 25 MHz shall not be certificated for use
under this part if the operator can program and transmit on
frequencies, other than those programmed by the manufacturer, service
or maintenance personnel, using the equipment's external operation
controls.
(f) Except as provided in paragraph (g) of this section, transmitters
designed to operate above 25 MHz that have been approved prior to
January 15, 1988, and that permit the operator, by using external
controls, to program the transmitter's operating frequencies, shall not
be manufactured in, or imported into the United States after March 15,
1988. Marketing of these transmitters shall not be permitted after
March 15, 1989.
(g) Transmitters having frequency programming capability and that are
designed to operate above 25 MHz are exempt from paragraphs (e) and (f)
of this section if the design of such transmitters:
(1) Is such that transmitters with external controls normally available
to the operator must be internally modified to place the equipment in
the programmable mode. Further, while in the programmable mode, the
equipment shall not be capable of transmitting. The procedures for
making the modification and altering the frequency program shall not be
made available with the operating information normally supplied to the
end user of the equipment; or
(2) Requires the tramsitter to be programmed for frequencies through
controls normally inaccessible to the operator; or
(3) Requires equipment to be programmed for frequencies through use of
external devices or specifically programmed modules made available only
to service/maintenance personnel; or
(4) Requires equipment to be programmed through cloning (copying a
program directly from another transmitter) using devices and procedures
made available only to service/maintenance personnel.
(h) The requirements of paragraphs (e), (f), and (g) of this section
shall not apply if:
(1) The equipment has been designed and manufactured specifically for
aircraft use; and
(2) The part 90 certification limits the use of the equipment to
operations only under § 90.423.
(i) Equipment certificated after February 16, 1988 and marketed for
public safety operation in the 806-809/851-854 MHz bands must have the
capability to be programmed for operation on the mutual aid channels as
designated in § 90.617(a)(1) of the rules.
(j) Except where otherwise specially provided for, transmitters
operating on frequencies in the 150-174 MHz and 406-512 MHz bands must
comply with the following:
(1) Applications for certification received on or after January 1,
2005, for mobile and portable transmitters designed to transmit voice
on public safety frequencies in the 150-174 MHz band will be granted
only if the mobile/portable equipment is capable of operating on the
nationwide public safety interoperability calling channel in the
150-174 MHz band. (See § 90.20(c), (d) of this part.) Applications for
certification received on or after January 1, 2005, for mobile and
portable transmitters designed to transmit voice on public safety
frequencies in the 450-470 MHz band will be granted only if the
mobile/portable equipment is capable of operating on the nationwide
public safety interoperability calling channel in the 450-470 MHz band.
(See § 90.20(c), (d) of this part.)
(2) Applications for certification received on or after February 14,
1997 but before January 1, 2005 will only be granted for equipment with
the following channel bandwidths:
(i) 12.5 kHz or less for single bandwidth mode equipment or
multi-bandwidth mode equipment with a maximum channel bandwidth of 12.5
kHz;
(ii) 25 kHz for multi-bandwidth mode equipment with a maximum channel
bandwidth of 25 kHz if it is capable of operating on channels of 12.5
kHz or less; and
(iii) 25 kHz if the equipment meets the efficiency standard of
paragraph (j)(3) of this section.
(3) Applications for part 90 certification of transmitters designed to
operate on frequencies in the 150.8-162.0125 MHz, 173.2-173.4 MHz,
and/or 421-512 MHz bands, received on or after February 14, 1997 must
include a certification that the equipment meets a spectrum efficiency
standard of one voice channel per 12.5 kHz of channel bandwidth.
Additionally, if the equipment is capable of transmitting data, has
transmitter output power greater than 500 mW, and has a channel
bandwidth of more than 6.25 kHz, the equipment must be capable of
supporting a minimum data rate of 4800 bits per second per 6.25 kHz of
channel bandwidth.
(4) Applications for part 90 certification of transmitters designed to
operate on frequencies in the 150.8-162.0125 MHz, 173.2-173.4 MHz,
and/or 421-512 MHz bands, received on or after January 1, 2011, except
for hand-held transmitters with an output power of two watts or less,
will only be granted for equipment with the following channel
bandwidths:
(i) 6.25 kHz or less for single bandwidth mode equipment;
(ii) 12.5 kHz for multi-bandwidth mode equipment with a maximum channel
bandwidth of 12.5 kHz if it is capable of operating on channels of 6.25
kHz or less;
(iii) 25 kHz for multi-bandwidth mode equipment with a maximum channel
bandwidth of 25 kHz if it is capable of operating on channels of 6.25
kHz or less; and
(iv) Up to 25 kHz if the equipment meets the efficiency standard of
paragraph (j)(5) of this section.
(5) Applications for part 90 certification of transmitters designed to
operate on frequencies in the 150.8-162.0125 MHz, 173.2-173.4 MHz,
and/or 421-512 MHz bands, received on or after January 1, 2011, must
include a certification that the equipment meets a spectrum efficiency
standard of one voice channel per 6.25 kHz of channel bandwidth.
Additionally, if the equipment is capable of transmitting data, has
transmitter output power greater than 500 mW, and has a channel
bandwidth of more than 6.25 kHz, the equipment must be capable of
supporting a minimum data rate of 4800 bits per second per 6.25 kHz of
channel bandwidth.
(6) Modification and permissive changes to certification grants.
(i) The Commission's Equipment Authorization Division will not allow
adding a multi-mode or narrowband operation capability to single
bandwidth mode transmitters, except under the following conditions:
(A) Transmitters that have the inherent capability for multi-mode or
narrowband operation allowed in paragraphs (j)(2) and (j)(4) of this
section, may have their grant of certification modified (reissued) upon
demonstrating that the original unit complies with the technical
requirements for operation; and
(B) New FCC Identifiers will be required to identify equipment that
needs to be modified to comply with the requirements of paragraphs
(j)(2) and (j)(4) of this section.
(ii) All other applications for modification or permissive changes will
be subject to the Rules of part 2 of this chapter.
(7) Transmitters designed only for one-way paging operations may be
certificated with up to a 25 kHz bandwidth and are exempt from the
spectrum efficiency requirements of paragraphs (j)(3) and (j)(5) of
this section.
(8) The Commission's Equipment Authorization Division may, on a case by
case basis, grant certification to equipment with slower data rates
than specified in paragraphs (j)(3) and (j)(5) of this section,
provided that a technical analysis is submitted with the application
which describes why the slower data rate will provide more spectral
efficiency than the standard data rate.
(9) Transmitters used for stolen vehicle recovery on 173.075 MHz must
comply with the requirements of § 90.20(e)(6).
(10) Except as provided in this paragraph, single-mode and multi-mode
transmitters designed to operate in the 150-174 MHz and 421-512 MHz
bands that operate with a maximum channel bandwidth greater than 12.5
kHz shall not be manufactured in, or imported into, the United States
after January 1, 2011, except as follows:
(i) To the extent that the equipment meets the efficiency standard of
paragraph (j)(3) of this section, or
(ii) Where operation with a bandwidth greater than 12.5 kHz is
specified elsewhere.
(k) For transmitters operating on frequencies in the 220-222 MHz band,
certification will only be granted for equipment with channel
bandwidths up to 5 kHz, except that certification will be granted for
equipment operating on 220-222 MHz band Channels 1 through 160
(220.0025 through 220.7975/221.0025 through 221.7975), 171 through 180
(220.8525 through 220.8975/221.8525 through 221.8975), and 186 through
200 (220.9275 through 220.9975/221.9275 through 221.9975) with channel
bandwidths greater than 5 kHz.
(l) Ocean buoy and wildlife tracking transmitters operating in the band
40.66-40.70 MHz or 216-220 MHz under the provisions of § 90.248 of this
part shall be authorized under verification procedure pursuant to
subpart J of part 2 of this chapter.
(m) Applications for part 90 certification received after December 31,
2014 will only be granted to transmitters designed to operate in the
voice mode on channels designated in § 90.531.(b)(5) or § 90.531(b)(6)
that provide at least one voice path per 6.25 kHz of spectrum
bandwidth.
(n) Transmitters designed to operate in the voice mode on channels
designated in § § 90.531(b)(5) or 90.531(b)(6) that do not provide at
least one voice path of 6.25 kHz of spectrum bandwidth shall not be
manufactured in or imported into the United States after December 31,
2014. Marketing of these transmitters shall not be permitted after
December 31, 2014.
(o) Equipment certification for transmitters in the 3650-3700 MHz band
. (1) Applications for all transmitters must describe the methodology
used to meet the requirement that each transmitter employ a contention
based protocol and indicate whether it is capable of avoiding
co-frequency interference with devices using all other types of
contention-based protocols (see § § 90.7, 90.1305 and 90.1321 of this
part);
(2) Applications for mobile transmitters must identify the base
stations with which they are designed to communicate and describe how
the requirement to positively receive and decode an enabling signal is
incorporated (see § 90.1333 of this part); and
(3) Applications for systems using advanced antenna technology must
provide the algorithm used to reduce the equivalent isotropically
radiated power (EIRP) to the maximum allowed in the event of
overlapping beams (see § 90.1321 of this part).
(4) Applications for fixed transmitters must include a description of
the installation instructions and guidelines for RF safety exposure
requirements that will be included with the transmitter. (See
§ 90.1335).
(p) Equipment certification for transmitters in the 763-769 and 793-799
MHz Bands. Applications for all transmitters must show support for at
least 3GPP TS 23.401, V8.8.0 (2009-12), "3rd Generation Partnership
Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects;
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements for Evolved Universal
Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access (Release 8),"
December, 2009, which is incorporated by reference. The Director of the
Federal Register approves this incorporation by reference in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51. Copies may be inspected at the
Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC
20554 or National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For
information on the availability of this material at NARA, call 202-741-
6030, or go to:
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ib
r_locations.html. Copies of the 3GPP Standard E-UTRA Release 8 can be
obtained from 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre, c/o ETSI, 650, route des
Lucioles, 06921 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France, Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 42
00, Fax: +33 4 93 65 47 16, http://www.3gpp.org.
[ 43 FR 54791 , Nov. 22, 1978; 44 FR 32219 , June 5, 1979]
Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting § 90.203,
see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding
Aids section of the printed volume and on GPO Access.
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