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 63 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATIONS-OCT. 2, 1947 (Chapter XIII, art. 28, 29 RR) (599-603) 599 (2) Aircraft stations when communicating with stations of the maritime mobile service on frequencies allocated to the maritime mobile service shall comply as far as possible with the provisions of this article. Section IV. Lifeboat, Liferaft and Survival Craft Stations 600 § 15. (1) Any installation used on board a lifeboat, a life- raft, or a survival craft, compulsorily provided with radio apparatus as a result of an international agreement, must be capable of transmitting by radiotelegraphy on the frequency 500 kc/s, preferably class A2 emission. In cases where the equipment provides for the use of frequencies between 4 000 and 23 000 kc/s, it must be able to transmit on the frequency 8 364 kc/s, preferably class A2 emission. 601 (2) If the equipment includes a receiver, it shall be able to receive on 500 kc/s, preferably class A2 emission, and, in the case where the transmitter employs frequencies be- tween 4 000 and 23 000 kc/s, and a receiver is provided, it must be able to receive classes Al and A2 emissions through- out the band 8 266 to 8 745 kc/s. ARTICLE 29. General Radiotelegraph Procedure in the Maritime Mobile and Aeronautical Mobile Services Section I. General Provisions 602 § 1. (1) In the maritime mobile and aeronautical mobile services the procedure detailed in this article is obligatory, except in the case of distress calls or of distress traffic, to which the provisions of article 37 are applicable. 603 (2) However, in the aeronautical mobile service the procedure contemplated in sections III, IV and V is applica- ble only in the absence of special arrangements to the con- trary made by agreements between the governments con- cerned. 1825

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