Get it now!
Often you want to know what a specific rule states. Now, without
digging thru an index or table of contents, you can just key it in,
hit return, and see the specified rule. Key in a rule using the
part.section format (for example, 73.1400). A subsection is ignored
and will not cause an error (for example, 73.1400(b) will return
all of 73.1400). If you don't know the rule section, but
do know the rule part, you can just key in the part number
and hit return to get the table of contents for that part. Or,
of course, you can scroll down the page the list of revision years.
Clicking on a revision year brings up a table of parts for that year.
You can then select a part to get a table of sections. Selecting a
section brings up the text of the selected section.
FCC Record
As time allows, we're running OCR on selected
issues of the FCC Record. Let us know what you'd like to see here!
Send requests to harold@hallikainen.com.
Search FCC Rules
This is a full text search of the FCC
Rules. Put in a few words and hit return. You can select which year's
rules to search.
CiteFind
At the bottom of each rule section is a link to CiteFind.
This link returns a list of FCC website documents citing the specific rule.
Text and Graphics
The html version of each section does not include graphics. The intent
here was to get speed and the advantages of hypertext. If you
do need the graphics (such as the F50,50 graphs), find the section you
want using the text mode (clicking on the section number after the
decimal point), then, once the desired section is visible, click the part (the
portion of the cite before the decimal point) to bring up the pdf version
(with graphics). The rule number (part.section) is shown at the beginning of
each display page, so you can easily get the pdf version by clicking on on the
number before the decimal point at the top of the page. Note that the pdf
version is delivered directly from the Government Printing Office. Note also
that the PDF version is updated by the GPO in January of each year for
rules published October 1 of the previous year. Therefore, for the current
rules, the pdf links will generally not work! To get a pdf version of a
rule, bring the rule up, then go back a year or two and try the pdf there,
keeping in mind changes that are shown in the current version of the rule.
Federal Register Citations
At the bottom of each section of the rules
is a history of the rule through citations to the Federal
Register. Each citation has a link to the Federal Register at the Government
Printing Office. The cited pages are available for volume 60 (1995) and later.
The Federal Register pages are returned in frames with the actual FR text in a
pdf frame.
False Links
The system recognizes the format of a rule citation, FR
citation or FCC document citation and determines how to link to that document
(through a look-up or a function based on the cite). Unfortunately, some other
text may look like one of these citations and form a false link.
This will result in the text being underlined and a different color.
Clicking on the false link will, of course, return a "document not found"
error.
Linking to the Rules
You are free to link to the rules in your documents on the web. The
URL to a specific section is
http://hallikainen.com/FccRules/section.php?section=73.1400 where
73.1400 is replaced by the actual section you want link to.
Please send your comments and suggestions on the service to harold@hallikainen.com.
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