# Amateur Service Rules
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2011-03-30 · Effective 2011-04-29 · 76 FR 17569
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-7381
- **Category:** spectrum-allocation
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 17569
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 97
- **Publication date:** 2011-03-30
- **Effective date:** 2011-04-29
- **FCC docket:** WT Docket No. 10-62
## Abstract

This document revises the Amateur Radio Service rules to amend and clarify the rules with respect to amateur stations transmitting spread spectrum emissions. The rule amendments are necessary to eliminate the requirement that an amateur station use automatic power control to reduce transmitter power when the station transmits a spread spectrum emission, and to reduce the maximum allowed transmitter output power for an amateur station transmitting a spread spectrum emission. The effect of this action is to eliminate the automatic power control provision which has proven to be virtually impossible to implement, and to encourage amateur stations to experiment with spread spectrum communications technologies.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/03/30/2011-7381/amateur-service-rules)
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