It Is Now Legal to Use Handheld VHF Radios While Ashore
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:46 pm
While reading BoatU.S. Magazine this month, I learned that the FCC has issued new rules making it legal to use portable handheld VHF radios while ashore. Such radios may now be used in areas adjacent to the water, for purposes relating to the operational and business needs of an associated vessel. Calls must be limited to the minimum practicable transmission time - no idle chatter. The following link leads to the Report and Order which includes the rule change, along with several other rule changes:https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-119A1.pdf
[UPDATE:
For more information on this topic, see a more recent thread which includes the actual emended regulations.
A sidebar topic about handheld radio MMSI has been split into its own discussion.
--jimh]
[UPDATE:
For more information on this topic, see a more recent thread which includes the actual emended regulations.
A sidebar topic about handheld radio MMSI has been split into its own discussion.
--jimh]