---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 22.813"
title: "47"
number: "22.813"
heading: "Technical channel pair assignment criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/22.813"
---

# §22.813. Technical channel pair assignment criteria.


The rules in this section establish technical assignment criteria for the channel pairs listed in [§ 22.805](/cfr/47/22.805.md). These criteria are intended to provide substantial service volumes over areas that have significant local and regional general aviation activity, while maintaining the continuous nationwide in-route coverage of the original geographical layout.

- (a) **Distance separation for co-channel ground stations.** The FCC may grant an application requesting assignment of a communication channel pair to a proposed ground transmitter only if the proposed antenna location is at least 800 kilometers (497 miles) from the antenna location of the nearest co-channel ground transmitter in the United States, its territories and possessions; and 1000 kilometers (621 miles) from the antenna location of the nearest co-channel ground transmitter in Canada.
- (b) **Dispersion.** The FCC may grant an application requesting assignment of a communication channel pair to a proposed ground transmitter only if there are no more than five different communication channel pairs already assigned to ground transmitters with antenna locations within a 320 kilometer (199 mile) radius of the proposed antenna location.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 222, 303, 309, and 332.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 59507, Nov. 17, 1994, unless otherwise noted.