---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.376"
title: "47"
number: "80.376"
heading: "Radio buoy operations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.376"
---

# §80.376. Radio buoy operations.


Frequencies in the 1900-2000 kHz band are authorized for radio buoy operations under a ship radio station license provided:

- (a) The use of these frequencies is related to commercial fishing operations on the open sea and the Great Lakes; and
- (b) The output power does not exceed 8 watts and the station antenna height does not exceed 4.6 meters above sea level in a buoy station or 6 meters above the mast of the ship on which it is installed.

## Notes

### Amendments

[82 FR 27213, June 14, 2017]

### 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

[82 FR 27213, June 14, 2017]