---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 101.143"
title: "47"
number: "101.143"
heading: "Minimum path length requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/101.143"
---

# §101.143. Minimum path length requirements.

- (a) The distance between end points of a fixed link in the private operational fixed point-to-point and the common carrier fixed point-to-point microwave services must equal or exceed the value set forth in the table below or the EIRP must be reduced in accordance with the equation set forth below:
- (b) For paths shorter than those specified in the table in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, the EIRP shall not exceed the value derived from the following equation:
- (c) Upon an appropriate technical showing, applicants and licensees unable to meet the minimum path length requirement may be granted an exception to these requirements.

## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, as amended at 65 FR 38330, June 20, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 26677, May 28, 1996, as amended at 65 FR 38330, June 20, 2000]