a repeater is not neccissarily AUTOMATIC CONTROL.. Automatic control is like when a repeater automaticly keys up to send its ID.
When one if us keys the repeater from our car or HT that is NOT automatic contol. I think someone may be missinterpretting this a bit. Part 97 is of course a bunch of legal talk, ha ha, not easily interpreted by most of us.. (including me) but it does have definitions of automatic, control operator, repeater and third party. the way I read it if you want to let your unlicensed buddy, child or wife, talk through your microphone while you are in control of the rig, through a local repeater, it is ok. Eddie (NU5K) From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Travis Burgess via BVARC Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BVARC] I didn't know that! >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
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