Qsy HamRadio - WA4DNS

[Revised as of Oct 1, 2006]

Third party communications: Section 97.115 of the Commission's Rules, Title 47 C.F.R. Part 97 Section 97.115, authorizes an amateur regulated by the FCC to transmit a message from its control operator (first party) to another amateur station control operator (second party) on behalf of another person (third party). No amateur station, however, shall transmit messages for a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government whose administration has not made arrangements with the United States to allow amateur stations to be used for transmitting international communications on behalf of third parties.

The following countries have made the necessary arrangements with the United States to permit an amateur station regulated by the FCC to exchange messages for a third party with amateur stations in:


                V2  --  Antigua and Barbuda
                LU  --  Argentina
                VK  --  Australia
                V3  --  Belize
                CP  --  Bolivia
               YU4  --  Bosnia-Herzegovina
                PY  --  Brazil
                VE  --  Canada
                CE  --  Chile
                HK  --  Colombia
                D6  --  Federal Islamic Republic of Comoros
                TI  --  Costa Rica
                CO  --  Cuba
                J7  --  Dominica
                HI  --  Dominican Republic
                HC  --  Ecuador
                YS  --  El Salvador
                C5  --  The Gambia
                9G  --  Ghana
                J3  --  Grenada
                TG  --  Guatemala
                8R  --  Guyana
                HH  --  Haiti
                HR  --  Honduras
                4X  --  Israel
                6Y  --  Jamaica
                JY  --  Jordan
                EL  --  Liberia
                V7  --  Republic of the Marshall Islands
                XE  --  Mexico
                V6  --  Federated States of Micronesia
                YN  --  Nicaragua
                HP  --  Panama
                ZP  --  Paraguay
                OA  --  Peru
                DU  --  Philippines
                V4  --  St. Christopher and Nevis, (St. Kitts)
                J6  --  St. Lucia
                J8  --  St. Vincent and the Grenadines
                9L  --  Sierra Leone
             ZR-ZU  --  South Africa,
               3D6  --  Swaziland
                9Y  --  Trinidad and Tobago
          TA/TB/TC  --  Turkey
                GB  --  United Kingdom (special event stations with call sign prefix
                        GB followed by a number other than 3)
                CX  --  Uruguay
                YV  --  Venezuela
            4U1ITU  --  Geneva, Switzerland
            4U1VIC  --  Vienna, Austria.

                 This List Was Last reviewed/updated: October 1, 1999

No amateur station regulated by the FCC shall transmit messages for a third party to any amateur station located within the jurisdiction of any foreign government not listed above. This prohibition does not apply to a message for any third party who is eligible to be the control operator of the station.