G1B: Antenna structure limitations; good engineering and good amateur practice; restricted operation

As defined in the FCC Rules, you may install an antenna structure without needing FCC approval up to a height of 200 feet above the ground (unless your station is in close proximity to an airport).


If the FCC Rules DO NOT specifically cover a situation, you must operate your amateur station in accordance with good engineering and good amateur practice.
An amateur station in two-way communication can NEVER transmit a message in a secret code in order to obscure the meaning of the communication. Abbreviations or procedural signals may be used in the amateur service if they do not obscure the meaning of a message. Codes or ciphers are not permitted in two-way amateur communications (domestic or international), if they are intended to obscure meaning.
Only beacon stations may normally transmit one-way communications.

The retransmission of space shuttle communications is the only amateur broadcast transmission that is NOT prohibited by the FCC Rules. The only exception that permits music to be transmitted by an amateur station is when it is an incidental part of a space shuttle retransmission.

To keep your station from retransmitting music or signals from a non-amateur station you should turn down the volume of background audio.

It is NOT true if information about a news event can be more quickly transmitted by Amateur Radio, that amateur stations can be used to gather news information for broadcast purposes.