[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5, Parts 80 to End]
[Revised as of October 1, 1999]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR95.861]

[Page 551-552]

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

PART 95--PERSONAL RADIO SERVICES--Table of Contents

                     Subpart F--218-219 MHz Service

Sec. 95.861  Interference.

    (a) When a 218-219 MHz Service system suffers harmful interference
within its service area from or causes harmful interference to another
218-219 MHz Service system, the licensees of both systems must cooperate
and resolve the problem by mutually satisfactory arrangements. If the
licensees are unable to do so, the Commission may impose restrictions
including, but not limited to, specifying the transmitter power, antenna
height, or area or hours of operation of the stations concerned.
    (b) The use of any frequency segment at a given geographical
location may be denied when, in the judgment of the Commission, its use
in that location is not in the public interest; the use of a frequency
segment specified for the 218-219 MHz Service system may be restricted
as to specified geographical areas, maximum power, or other operating
conditions.
    (c) Unless the 218-219 MHz Service system licensee obtains written
consent from the TV Channel 13 station licensee to dispense with this
notification, each 218-219 MHz Service system licensee must notify all
households located both within a TV Channel 13 station Grade B predicted
contour and the 218-219 MHz Service system service area of the potential
for interference from a 218-219 MHz Service system. The 218-219 MHz
Service system licensee must also inform those potentially affected
households that it will eliminate any objectionable interference to
television reception caused by its 218-219 MHz Service system. This
notification shall be made no earlier than two weeks before and no later
than two weeks after initiation of 218-219 MHz Service in the TV Channel
13 station Grade B predicted contour. The written consent must be kept
as part of the 218-219 MHz Service system authorization.
    (d) Each 218-219 MHz Service system licensee must provide upon
request, and install free of charge, an interference reduction device to
any household within a TV Channel 13 station Grade B predicted contour
that experiences interference due to a component CTS or RTU.
    (e) Each 218-219 MHz Service system licensee must investigate and
eliminate interference to television broadcasting and reception, from
its component CTSs and RTUs, within 30 days of the time it is notified
in writing, by either an affected television station, an affected
viewer, or the Commission, of an interference complaint. Should the

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licensee fail to eliminate the interference within the 30 day period,
the CTS or RTU causing the interference must discontinue operation.
    (f) The boundaries for each 218-219 MHz Service service area, as
defined in Sec. 95.803, are the limit of interference protection for a
218-219 MHz Service system.

[57 FR 8275, Mar. 9, 1992, as amended at 57 FR 36374, Aug. 13, 1992]