§ 97.201   Auxiliary station.

   (a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician, General,
   Advanced  or  Amateur Extra Class operator license may be an auxiliary
   station. A holder of a Technician, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class
   operator  license may be the control operator of an auxiliary station,
   subject to the privileges of the class of operator license held.

   (b) An auxiliary station may transmit only on the 2 m and shorter wavelength
   bands,  except  the  144.0-144.5  MHz,  145.8-146.0  MHz, 219-220 MHz,
   222.00-222.15 MHz, 431-433 MHz, and 435-438 MHz segments.

   (c)  Where an auxiliary station causes harmful interference to another
   auxiliary station, the licensees are equally and fully responsible for
   resolving the interference unless one station's operation is recommended by
   a frequency coordinator and the other station's is not. In that case, the
   licensee of the non-coordinated auxiliary station has primary responsibilty
   to resolve the interference.

   (d) An auxiliary station may be automatically controlled.

   (e) An auxiliary station may transmit one-way communications.

   [ 54 FR 25857 , June 20, 1989, as amended at  56 FR 56171 , Nov. 1, 1991;  60 FR 15687 , Mar. 27, 1995;  63 FR 68980 , Dec. 14, 1998;  71 FR 66462 , Nov. 15,
   2006;  75 FR 78171 , Dec. 15, 2010]

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