Sec. 95.192  (FRS Rule 2) Authorized locations.

    (a) Provided that you comply with these rules, you are authorized to 
operate an FRS unit:
    (1) Within or over any area of the world where radio services are 
regulated by the FCC (this area includes the fifty United States and the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States 
Virgin Islands (50 islets and cays), American Samoa (seven islands), the 
Commonwealth of Northern Marianna Islands, and Guam Island);
    (2) Within or over any other area of the world, except within or 
over the territorial limits of areas where radio services are regulated 
by an agency of the United States other than the FCC or any foreign 
government (you are subject to its rules);
    (3) Aboard any vessel or aircraft registered in the United States, 
with the permission of the captain, that is within or over any area of 
the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC or upon or over 
international waters;
    (4) or; Aboard any unregistered vessel or aircraft owned or operated 
by a United States citizen or company that is within or over any area of 
the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC or upon or over 
international waters.

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    (5) You must operate the FRS unit only according to any applicable 
treaty to which the United States is a party. The FCC will make public 
notice of any such conditions.
    (b) Your use of an FRS unit must not cause harmful interference to a 
FCC monitoring facility. Doing so could result in imposition of 
restrictions upon the operation of the FRS unit within 0.8 km (0.5 mile) 
of the facility by its Engineer-in-Charge. (Geographical coordinates of 
the facilities that require protection are listed in Sec. 0.121(c) of 
this chapter.)
    (c) The FCC may impose additional restrictions on a FRS station if 
the station is located at a point within the National Radio Quiet Zone 
(an area within the States of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia). The 
Zone is the area bounded by:
    (1) 39 deg. 15' N. on the North;
    (2) 78 deg. 30' W. on the East;
    (3) 37 deg. 30' N. on the South; and
    (4) 80 deg. 30' W. on the West.