---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 95.1787"
title: "47"
number: "95.1787"
heading: "GMRS additional requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/95.1787"
---

# §95.1787. GMRS additional requirements.


Each hand-held portable unit transmitter type submitted for certification under this subpart is subject to the rules in this section.

- (a) **Digital data transmissions.** GMRS hand-held portable units that have the capability to transmit digital data must be designed to meet the following requirements.
  - (1) Digital data transmissions may contain location information, or requesting location information from one or more other GMRS or FRS units, or containing a brief text message to another specific GMRS or FRS unit. Digital data transmissions may be initiated by a manual action of the operator or on an automatic or periodic basis, and a GMRS unit receiving an interrogation request may automatically respond with its location.
  - (2) Digital data transmissions must not exceed one second in duration.
  - (3) Digital data transmissions must not be sent more frequently than one digital data transmission within a thirty-second period, except that a GMRS unit may automatically respond to more than one interrogation request received within a thirty-second period.
  - (4) The antenna must be a non-removable integral part of the GMRS unit.
  - (5) GMRS units must not be capable of transmitting digital data on the 467 MHz main channels.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[82 FR 41104, Aug. 29, 2017, as amended at 86 FR 53565, Sept. 28, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 307.

### Source

Source: 82 FR 41104, Aug. 29, 2017, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[82 FR 41104, Aug. 29, 2017, as amended at 86 FR 53565, Sept. 28, 2021]