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Michael - K5WRN http://www.qrz.com/db/K5WRN On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Travis Burgess via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > From the Ham Test Online Extra study material: > > > Automatically Controlled Stations and Third-Party Communications > > There are a couple of quirky laws about third party communications and > automatically controlled stations. The FCC is trying to make sure that > amateur radio doesn't compete with any commercial services. > > - Automatically controlled stations are not allowed to *originate *third > party communications. > > - Automatically controlled stations are only allowed to *retransmit *third > party communications if they are RTTY or data. In other words, if you pass > third party traffic by voice on a repeater, or let your unlicensed friend > talk on a repeater, and there is no control operator monitoring the > repeater at that time, the repeater is violating the regulations! Most > hams don't know this rule, or simply ignore it, but it *is *the law. > > > > ------- > > Travis > K5HTB > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > >
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