On Tuesday 03 April 2007 11:04:33 Ken Arck wrote: > At 04:20 AM 4/3/2007, you wrote: > >Go ahead, but please keep it on topic... > > <----Well, I'll keep it simple for the moment and save the gory > details should they be needed. > > Essentially, the situation involves a 2 meter remote base on a UHF > system being used to "monitor" a regularly scheduled Saturday swap > net that is conducted on a non-related linked repeater system. The > remote base simply monitors one of the 2 meter repeaters of that system. > > One of the "owners" of the linked system demands that the 2 meter > remote base owner "cease and desist" because he doesn't have > "permission" to rebroadcast the net and to do so is "illegal". > > The owner of the 2 meter remote base tells the linked system member > to go pound sand (in so many words) - there is nothing illegal about > using a remote base to monitor a linked system and that permission is > not needed. > > Who's right? > > Ken
Amateur frequencies are fair game. The communcations act doesn't apply here, because amateur spectrum is OPEN, receive wise. What a crock. Even if the owner of the remote was doing something illegal with it (hard to imagine) it would be the FCC's responsibility, not the originator of the signal. --STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82
