The Allocation of Radio Frequency and Its Effect on Small Business: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 53 ... February 20 [Oct. 4] 1968, Volume 1

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Reviews Federal allotment of radio frequency spectrum space and its effects upon use of mobile radio communications by small business, v.1; Continuation of hearings on difficulties of police, fire department and small business users of FCC controlled radio frequencies during times of riot or crisis, v.2.
 

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Page 14 - Radio stations belonging to and operated by the United States shall not be subject to the provisions of sections 301 and 303 of this Act. All such Government stations shall use such frequencies as shall be assigned to each or to each class by the President. All such stations, except stations on board naval and other Government vessels while at sea or beyond the limits of the continental United States, when transmitting any radio communication or signal other than a communication or signal relating...
Page 16 - This message does not create a new communications policy for our nation. Rather, it proposes the foundation for that policy. — It reaffirms our intentions as a partner in INTELSAT. — It considers the need for modifications in our international communications posture. — It sets in motion the necessary studies for a better understanding of policy needs in domestic and international communications.
Page 14 - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 12 - As has been pointed out in the following chapters — We now have all areas of the usable radio spectrum allocated and, to varying degrees, in service ; We have observed the potential of various segments of the spectrum to perform different and specialized tasks ; We have been overwhelmed by the popularity and need for the "product...
Page 230 - D— 12 should not be overlooked. In the present situation they have provided, and in any new situation will continue to provide, invaluable advice and guidance to the FCC on policy matters that transcend the level of local areas. These groups include: The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) The...
Page 14 - SEC. 606. (a} During the continuance of a war in which the United States is engaged, the President is authorized, if he finds it necessary for the national defense and security, to direct that such communications as in his judgment may be essential to the national defense and security shall have preference or priority with any carrier subject to this Act.
Page 271 - MHz must recognize that it is shared with various services of other countries; that harmful interference may be caused by skywave signals received from distant stations of all services of the United States and other countries radiating power on frequencies in this band; and that no protection from such harmful interference generally can be expected. Persons desiring to avoid...
Page 165 - ... have nots" achieve some of the good things that our system of free enterprise brought about. I am an American who gets a lump in his throat when he hears the "Star Spangled Banner" and who holds back tears when he hears those chilling high notes of the brassy trumpets when Old Glory reaches the top of the flag pole. I am a tired American — who wants to start snapping at those phoney "high priests...
Page 165 - ... am a tired American — who has lost all patience with that civil rights group which is showing propaganda movies on college campuses from coast to coast. Movies denouncing the United States. Movies made in Communist China. I am a tired American — who is angered by the selfrighteous breastbeater critics...
Page 277 - Federal Communications Commission, In the Matter of Statutory Inquiry into the Allocation of Frequencies to the Various Non-Governmental Services in the Radio Spectrum between 25 mcs and 890 mcs. Docket No. 11997. Order of Inquiry and Public Notice, Report No. 245. VIII. EMERGENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RADIO ALLOCATION POLICY The counterpart of national allocation policy is international allocation policy.