Radio Control Radio Service

Radio Control (R/C) is a one-way, short distance, non-voice radio service for on/off operation of devices at places distant from the operator. The FCC authorizes your R/C unit to transmit any non-voice emission type for the purpose of (1) the operator turning on and/or off a device at a remote location, or (2) an indicating device for the operator being turned on and/or off by a sensor at a remote location. You cannot communicate voice or data in the R/C.

License documents are neither needed nor issued. The FCC provides your authority to operate an R/C unit in places where the FCC regulates radio communications. There is no age or citizenship requirement.

You may operate your R/C unit within the territorial limits of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, and the Caribbean and Pacific Insular areas ("U.S."). You may also operate your R/C unit on or over any other area of the world, except within the territorial limits of areas where radio communications are regulated by another agency of the U.S. or within the territorial limits of any foreign government.