---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.469"
title: "47"
number: "80.469"
heading: "Maritime mobile repeater stations in Alaska."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.469"
---

# §80.469. Maritime mobile repeater stations in Alaska.

- (a) Maritime mobile repeater stations are authorized to extend the range of communication between a VHF public coast station located in Alaska and ship stations.
- (b) On a secondary basis, maritime mobile repeater stations may be authorized to extend the range of a private coast station:
  - (1) In an area where VHF common carrier service is not available;
  - (2) A maritime mobile repeater station license expires 60 days after a public coast station in the area begins service.
- (c) Maritime mobile repeater stations may not be authorized in cases where operational fixed frequencies can be employed.
- (d) The provisions relating to duplication of service described in subpart P apply to maritime mobile repeater stations.
- (e) The frequencies 157.275 and 161.875 MHz are assignable to maritime mobile repeater stations.
- (f) **Each maritime mobile repeater station must—**
  - (1) Deactivate automatically within 5 seconds after the signals controlling the station cease; and
  - (2) During periods when it is not controlled from a manned control point, deactivate automatically not more than 20 minutes after its activation by a mobile unit.

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 63 FR 68956, Dec. 14, 1998]

### 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 63 FR 68956, Dec. 14, 1998]