Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
Subpart
D-Citizens
Band (CB) Radio
Service
General Provisions
ยง 95.401 (CB
Rule
1) What
are the Citizens
Band
Radio
Services?
The Citizens Band Radio Services
are:
(a) The Citizens Band (CB)
Radio
Service-a
private,
two-way, short-distance voice
communications service for
personal
or
business activities
of
the general public. The CB Radio
Service may also
be
used for
. .
voice paging.
(b) The Family Radio Service
(FRS)-a
private, two-way,
very short-distance voice and
data communications service
for facilitating family and group
activities. The rules for this
service are contained in subpart B
of
this part.
( c) The Low Power Radio
Service (LPRS)- a private, short-
distance communication service
providing auditory assistance to
persons with disabilities, persons
who require language translation,
and persons in educational
settings, health care assistance to
the ill, law enforcement tracking
services in cooperation with law
enforcement, and point-to-point
network control communications
for Automated Marine
Telecommunications System
(AMTS) coast stations licensed
under part
80
of
this chapter. The
rules for this service are listed
under subpart G
of
this part.
Two-
way voice communications are
prohibited.
( d) The Medical Device
Radiocommunication Service
(MedRadio
)-an
ultra-low power
radio service, for the transmission
of
non-voice data for the purpose
of
facilitating diagnostic and/or
therapeutic functions involving
implanted and body-worn medical
devices. The rules for this service
are contained in subpart I
of
this
part.
( e) The Wireless Medical
Telemetry Service
(WMTS)-a
private, short distance data
communication service for
the transmission
of
patient
medical information to a central
monitoring location in a hospital
or
other medical facility. Voice
and video communications are
prohibited. Waveforms such as
electrocardiograms (ECGs) are
not considered video. The rules