Sec. 97.113  Prohibited transmissions.

    (a) No amateur station shall transmit:
    (1) Communications specifically prohibited elsewhere in this part;
    (2) Communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or 
indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules;
    (3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator 
has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an 
employer. Amateur operators may, however, notify other amateur operators 
of the availability for sale or trade of apparatus normally used in an 
amateur station, provided that such activity is not conducted on a 
regular basis;
    (4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided 
elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a 
criminal act; messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure the 
meaning thereof, except as otherwise provided herein; obscene or 
indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or 
identification;
    (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be 
furnished alternatively through other radio services.
    (b) An amateur station shall not engage in any form of broadcasting, 
nor may an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as 
specifically provided in these rules; nor shall an amateur station 
engage in any activity related to program production or news gathering 
for broadcasting purposes, except that communications directly related 
to the immediate safety of human life or the protection of property may 
be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the 
public where no other means of communication is reasonably available 
before or at the time of the event.
    (c) A control operator may accept compensation as an incident of a 
teaching position during periods of time when an amateur station is used 
by that teacher as a part of classroom instruction at an educational 
institution.
    (d) The control operator of a club station may accept compensation 
for the periods of time when the station is transmitting telegraphy 
practice or information bulletins, provided that the station transmits 
such telegraphy practice and bulletins for at least 40 hours per week; 
schedules operations on at least six amateur service MF and

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HF bands using reasonable measures to maximize coverage; where the 
schedule of normal operating times and frequencies is published at least 
30 days in advance of the actual transmissions; and where the control 
operator does not accept any direct or indirect compensation for any 
other service as a control operator.
    (e) No station shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from 
any type of radio station other than an amateur station, except 
propagation and weather forecast information intended for use by the 
general public and originated from United States Government stations and 
communications, including incidental music, originating on United States 
Government frequencies between a space shuttle and its associated Earth 
stations. Prior approval for shuttle retransmissions must be obtained 
from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Such 
retransmissions must be for the exclusive use of amateur operators. 
Propagation, weather forecasts, and shuttle retransmissions may not be 
conducted on a regular basis, but only occasionally, as an incident of 
normal amateur radio communications.
    (f) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater, or space 
station, may automatically retransmit the radio signals of other amateur 
station.
[ 58 FR 43072 , Aug. 13, 1993;  58 FR 47219 , Sept. 8, 1993]