>From the Ham Test Online Extra study material: Automatically Controlled Stations and Third-Party CommunicationsThere 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.
------- TravisK5HTB
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