---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.1155"
title: "47"
number: "80.1155"
heading: "Radioprinter."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.1155"
---

# §80.1155. Radioprinter.


Radioprinter operations provide record communications between authorized maritime mobile stations.

- (a) **Supplementary eligibility requirements.** Ships must be less than 1600 gross tons.
- (b) **Scope of communication.**
  - (1) Ship radioprinter communications may be conducted with an associated private coast station.
  - (2) Ships authorized to communicate by radioprinter with a common private coast station may also conduct intership radioprinter operations.
  - (3) Only those communications which are associated with the business and operational needs of the ship are authorized.
- (c) **Assignment and use of frequencies.**
  - (1) Frequencies for radioprinter operations are shared by several radio services including the maritime mobile service.
  - (2) Ship stations must conduct radioprinter operations only on frequencies assigned to their associated private coast station for that purpose.
- (d) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 90 FR 57709, Dec. 12, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609; 3 U.S.T. 3450, 3 U.S.T. 4726, 12 U.S.T. 2377.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 90 FR 57709, Dec. 12, 2025]