---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 97.1"
title: "47"
number: "97.1"
heading: "Basis and purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/97.1"
---

# §97.1. Basis and purpose.


The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles:

- (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.
- (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.
- (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art.
- (d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.
- (e) **Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 54 FR 25857, June 20, 1989, unless otherwise noted.