---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 97.405"
title: "47"
number: "97.405"
heading: "Station in distress."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/97.405"
---

# §97.405. Station in distress.

- (a) No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station in distress of any means at its disposal to attract attention, make known its condition and location, and obtain assistance.
- (b) No provision of these rules prevents the use by a station, in the exceptional circumstances described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, of any means of radiocommunications at its disposal to assist a station in distress.

## 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.