(a) Before placing an amateur station on land of environmental importance or that is significant in American history, architecture or culture, the licensee may be required to take certain actions prescribed by Sec. Sec. 1.1305-1.1319 of this chapter.
(b) A station within 1600 m (1 mile) of an FCC monitoring facility must protect that facility from harmful interference. Failure to do so could result in imposition of operating restrictions upon the amateur station pursuant to Sec. 97.121. Geographical coordinates of the facilities that require protection are listed in Sec. 0.121(c) of this chapter.
(c) Before causing or allowing an amateur station to transmit from any place where the operation of the station could cause human exposure to RF electromagnetic field levels in excess of those allowed under Sec. 1.1310 of this chapter, the licensee is required to take certain actions.
(1) The licensee must perform the routine RF environmental evaluation prescribed by Sec. 1.1307(b) of this chapter, if the power of the licensee's station exceeds the limits given in the following table: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Evaluation required if power
Wavelength band \1\ (watts) exceeds------------------------------------------------------------------------
MF------------------------------------------------------------------------160 m..................................... 500------------------------------------------------------------------------
HF------------------------------------------------------------------------80 m...................................... 50075 m...................................... 50040 m...................................... 50030 m...................................... 42520 m...................................... 22517 m...................................... 12515 m...................................... 10012 m...................................... 7510 m...................................... 50VHF (all bands)........................... 50------------------------------------------------------------------------
UHF------------------------------------------------------------------------70 cm..................................... 7033 cm..................................... 15023 cm..................................... 20013 cm..................................... 250SHF (all bands)........................... 250EHF (all bands)........................... 250Repeater stations (all bands)............. non-building-mounted
antennas: height above
ground level to lowest
point of antenna <10 m and
power 500 W ERP
building-mounted antennas:
power 500 W ERP------------------------------------------------------------------------\1\ Power = PEP input to antenna except, for repeater stations only,
power exclusion is based on ERP (effective radiated power).
(2) If the routine environmental evaluation indicates that the RF electromagnetic fields could exceed the limits contained in Sec. 1.1310 of this chapter in accessible areas, the licensee must take action to prevent human exposure to such RF electromagnetic fields. Further information on evaluating compliance with these limits can be found in the FCC's OET Bulletin Number 65, ``Evaluating Compliance with FCC Guidelines for Human Exposure to Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields.'' [54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 20398, May 16, 1990; 61 FR 41019, Aug. 7, 1996; 62 FR 47963, Sept. 12, 1997; 62 FR 49557, Sept. 22, 1997; 62 FR 61448, Nov. 18, 1997; 63 FR 68978, Dec. 14, 1998; 65 FR 6549, Feb. 10, 2000; 80 FR 53752, Sept. 8, 2015]