[LakelandARC] Fwd: FCC's Part 95 Personal Radio Services rewrite takes effect today!

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-------- Original message --------From: "George Mann gwmann at verizon.net [LakelandARC]" <LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com> Date: 9/29/17  16:10  (GMT-05:00) To: LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com Subject: [LakelandARC] Fwd: FCC's Part 95 Personal Radio Services rewrite takes effect today! 

 



  


    
      
      
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From the CQ Newsroom:  

The FCC's rewrite of its rules for the Part 95 Personal Radio Services takes effect today, September 28, 2017.

 

Major changes include removing the 155-mile distance limit on CB contacts (which had virtually never been observed anytime the band was open in the past 50 years); addition of new Family Radio Service (FRS) channels (shared with GMRS, the General Mobile Radio Service); GMRS power restrictions on the channels newly shared with FRS, and allowing GMRS licensees to send text messages in addition to voice transmissions. (See July CQ, p. 26, for a more comprehensive look at the changes in various personal radio services.)

 

Click here to visit the CQ Newsroom 

 

The Federal Register announcement is at:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/08/29/2017-17395/personal-radio-service-reform 

  

The complete text of the new Part 95 Report & Order is at:

 https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344617A1.pdf  

 

 

KJ4UW 
George Mann


    
     

    
    


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