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§97.405 Station in distress.
(a) No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station in distress of any means at its disposal
to attract attention, make known its condition and location, and obtain assistance.
(b) No provision of these rules prevents the use by a station, in the exceptional circumstances described in
paragraph (a), of any means of radiocommunications at its disposal to assist a station in distress.
§97.407 Radio amateur civil emergency service.
(a) No station may transmit in RACES unless it is an FCC-licensed primary, club, or military recreation station
and it is certified by a civil defense organization as registered with that organization, or it is an FCC-licensed
RACES station. No person may be the control operator of a RACES station, or may be the control operator of
an amateur station transmitting in RACES unless that person holds a FCC-issued amateur operator license and is
certified by a civil defense organization as enrolled in that organization.
(b) The frequency bands and segments and emissions authorized to the control operator are available to
stations transmitting communications in RACES on a shared basis with the amateur service. In the event of an
emergency which necessitates the invoking of the President’s War Emergency Powers under the provisions of
§706 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §606, RACES stations and amateur stations
participating in RACES may only transmit on the following frequencies:
(1) The 1800-1825 kHz, 1975-2000 kHz, 3.50-3.55 MHz, 3.93-3.98 MHz, 3.984-4.000 MHz, 7.079-7.125 MHz,
7.245-7.255 MHz, 10.10-10.15 MHz, 14.047-14.053 MHz, 14.22-14.23 MHz, 14.331-14.350 MHz,
21.047-21.053 MHz, 21.228-21.267 MHz, 28.55-28.75 MHz, 29.237-29.273 MHz, 29.45-29.65 MHz,
50.35-50.75 MHz, 52-54 MHz, 144.50-145.71 MHz, 146-148 MHz, 2390-2450 MHz segments;
