On Jun 3, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Don Kupferschmidt wrote: > I've thought about this since the thread started. Don't you think > that the > "godfathers of the controllers", (SCOM, ACC and others), would have > incorporated the paging tones into their systems UNLESS they had > done their > homework as to the legality of this issue?
Truthfully yes. Controllers are sold into other industries other than ham radio. Operating one's station by the law is the responsibility of the Amateur, not the manufacturer of any particular piece of equipment. If you buy an fancy new multi-band rig, and are a Technician-class licensee, you'd best not fire it up in a band you don't have privileges for, as one example. That'd be your head, not Yaesu's. > I would bet a lot of money that > those manufacturers checked the rules and regs long before they > added that > feature. I wouldn't. They don't have to. (I'm not arguing the legality of it or not at all, just that there's no direct correlation between a manufacturer having a feature and that feature being legal or not. Hundreds of Amateurs operated EchoLink and IRLP illegally without control operators as something akin to Auxiliary Stations in the VHF band, before that was legal. It now is legal to operate Auxiliary Stations in VHF, but Part 97 up until last year stated that Auxiliary Stations were to remain at 222.15 or above, before the recent Report & Orders changed that rule.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
