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COMMISSION'S RULES · - Antenna structure limitations; good engineering and good amateur practice; beacon operation; prohibited transmissions; retransmitting radio signals

G1B05§ 97.111((5)(b)G1B →

Which of the following one-way transmissions are permitted?

  1. AUnidentified test transmissions of less than 10 seconds in duration
  2. BTransmissions to assist with learning the International Morse code
  3. CRegular transmissions offering equipment for sale, if intended for amateur radio use
  4. DAll these choices are correct
Why Section 97.111(b) lists the narrow set of one-way transmissions an amateur station may make: brief tests and calls to establish contact, telecommand, emergency communications, code practice transmissions to help people learn or improve at International Morse, information bulletins of interest to amateurs, and telemetry. Code practice is explicitly named in that list, which is why W1AW-style Morse practice broadcasts are legal. Everything one-way that is not on the 97.111(b) list is off limits.
Watch out Test transmissions are allowed, but they still must carry station identification every 10 minutes and at the end, so the unidentified test option fails on ID rather than on being a test; and 97.113 bars using amateur radio for a regular business activity, so routinely advertising gear for sale is prohibited even if the gear is ham equipment.
One-way OK list: tests, telecommand, emergencies, code practice, bulletins, telemetry. Ads and unidentified transmissions never.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
47 CFR 97.111 Authorized transmissions.

(a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way communications:

(1) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with other stations in the amateur service, except those in any country whose administration has notified the ITU that it objects to such communications. The FCC will issue public notices of current arrangements for international communications.

(2) Transmissions necessary to meet essential communication needs and to facilitate relief actions.

(3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in another FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications;

(4) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a United States government station, necessary to providing communications in RACES; and

(5) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in a service not regulated by the FCC, but authorized by the FCC to communicate with amateur stations. An amateur station may exchange messages with a participating United States military station during an Armed Forces Day Communications Test.

(b) In addition to one-way transmissions specifically authorized elsewhere in this part, an amateur station may transmit the following types of one-way communications:

(1) Brief transmissions necessary to make adjustments to the station;

(2) Brief transmissions necessary to establishing two-way communications with other stations;

(3) Telecommand;

(4) Transmissions necessary to providing emergency communications;

(5) Transmissions necessary to assisting persons learning, or improving proficiency in, the international Morse code; and

(6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information bulletins.

(7) Transmissions of telemetry.

eCFR text as of 1 Sep 2026 · read on ecfr.gov
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