mch wrote: > Reepaters were first licensed in 1972 when the FCC issued the repeater > rules. They were granted 'WR' callsigns in 1974 (which was discontinued > around 1978). > > They were never prohibited in Part 97 AFAIK based on my research of > repeaters. They were required to have a control operator at a control > point (or locally) until 1998-ish when the FCC authorized automatic > control. > > Joe M.
And don't forget that I think in the same 1978 ruling they cut back on logging requirements. Used to be that ALL transmissions through the repeater had to be logged. =:cO -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
