Using your same logic below, it could well be determined that hams who
partake regularly in 75M evening nets, or even regular QSO, etc, should take
their conversations to FCC Part D Citizen's band, or other service ,
because those communications on a regular basis could be easily furnished
through those alternative services too.
I know, its stupid, but it also carries the same logic as the below
example .
K7AAT
Adding to Skip's remarks, I will point out it is considered almost an
indecency among the daily-position-report hams to mention 97.113(a)(5)
of the FCC rules, which states:
(a) No amateur station shall transmit:
...
(5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be
furnished alternatively through other radio services.
That means that a US-licensed ham violates the FCC regs when s/he
regularly transmits vessel position reports, which could be
transmitted using the maritime mobile service, over ham frequencies.
Not being a lawyer, I am not qualified to say whether a fixed ham
station which received those messages and forwards them to a web page
is also in violation, though my unqualified guess is "no".
