FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION	 PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D . C,	(41464)
USE OF AMATEUR PORTABLE TRANSMITTERS
FOR LONG DISTANCE COMMUNICATION BANNED
June 7, 1940
Supplementing
its recent order prohibiting amateur radio communication
with foreign countries, the Federal Communications Commission today
imposed an immediate ban on the use of all amateur portable and other
amateur mobile stations operating in the continental United States, its
territories and possessions except those stations using short-range
frequenciesabove 56,000 kilocycles and except in the case of amateurs operating
portable stations on June 22 and 23, 1940, in connection with the A.R.R.L .
Field Day tests of portable transmitters which are designed for special use
in time of emergency.
Several thousand stations are affected by the terms of this order ;
however, they did not operate regularly . Any amateur licensed by the
Commission has been allowed to operate a portable station provided that
advance notice, in writing, is given to the Commission inspector in charge
of the district in which such operation is contemplated, Under suspended
rules and regulations, this type of operation is now restricted indefinitely
to the frequencies which, generally speaking, do not carry farther than the
line of sight .