---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 5.121"
title: "47"
number: "5.121"
heading: "Station record requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/5.121"
---

# §5.121. Station record requirements.

- (a)
  - (1) For conventional, program, medical testing, compliance testing experimental radio stations, the current original authorization or a clearly legible photocopy for each station shall be retained as a permanent part of the station records but need not be posted. Station records are required to be kept for a period of at least one year after license expiration.
  - (2) For Spectrum Horizons experimental radio stations, the licensee is solely responsible for retaining the current authorization as a permanent part of the station records but need not be posted. Station records are required to be kept for a period of at least one year after license expiration.
- (b) For Broadcast experimental radio stations, the license must be available at the transmitter site. The licensee of each experimental broadcast station must maintain and retain for a period of two years, adequate records of the operation, including:
  - (1) Information concerning the nature of the experimental operation and the periods in which it is being conducted; and
  - (2) **Information concerning any specific data requested by the FCC.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[78 FR 25162, Apr. 29, 2013, as amended at 84 FR 25690, June 4, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 301, 302, 303, 307, 336.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 25162, Apr. 29, 2013, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[78 FR 25162, Apr. 29, 2013, as amended at 84 FR 25690, June 4, 2019]