<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>"...removed the requirement that transmitters use crystal control to keep frequencies stable in recognition that technologic advancements made the requirement unnecessary."<div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "George Mann gwmann@verizon.net [LakelandARC]" <LakelandARC@yahoogroups.com> </div><div>Date: 9/29/17 16:10 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: LakelandARC@yahoogroups.com </div><div>Subject: [LakelandARC] Fwd: FCC's Part 95 Personal Radio Services rewrite takes effect today! </div><div><br></div></div>
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<p></p><p dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS!</p>
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From the CQ Newsroom: <br>
The FCC's rewrite of its rules for the Part 95 Personal Radio Services takes effect today, September 28, 2017.<br>
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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.)<br>
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Click here to visit the CQ Newsroom <br>
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The Federal Register announcement is at:<br>
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/08/29/2017-17395/personal-radio-service-reform <br>
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The complete text of the new Part 95 Report & Order is at:<br>
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344617A1.pdf <br>
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KJ4UW </p>
<p dir="ltr">George Mann</p>
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