The legality of renting a station has been hashed over many times, and I
think it's pretty clear that the FCC doesn't see any difference between
somebody renting their house that happens to have a station in it than
they do for somebody renting a remotely operated station. The FCC
specifies that a control operator needs to be present at all times, but
that control point can be from a remote location as well .. ala VHF/UHF
mountaintop repeaters. In any case outfits like RHR require that anyone
using their stations have a legitimate ham radio license, which makes
them the approved control operator.
In other words, the owner of the station is renting his gear ... he's
not selling the "communication" itself that is specified in the FCC
rules. RHR has been operating on a large scale for quite some time and
almost for sure would have come into view of the FCC long ago.
And yes, every contest or award program I'm aware of requires that the
operation claim the location of the gear, not the operator.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/17/2019 9:56 PM, Edward R Cole wrote:
First off, I question the legality of renting a ham station for profit
(which this example seems to be). But it seems to be done for renting
stations in exotic (rare DX) locations with no heart attack by
hamdom. Treated as vacation rentals.
But owning your own remote located station using internet control from
our room in assisted living seems a viable alternative.
Many of these senior facilities ban use of RF devices due to RFI
concerns with pace maker users or medical equipment. Maybe one could
use a 5w HT. External antennas are problem-some. My concept was
installing my ham station in a "toy hauler" trailer with crank-up
tower that could be moved and located in a convenient location. Also,
handy as emmcom station.
Also, some ham groups form a kind of club to jointly own a "super
station" which members share. Such a group in Switzerland own a
45-foot dish which they share using for eme. But organized as
not-for-profit.
I do expect any contest/award operations to claim the physical
transmitter location (instead of the remote operator's qth).
73, Ed - KL7UW
http://www.kl7uw.com
Dubus-NA Business mail:
[email protected]
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Message delivered to [email protected]
