----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] NFCC votes to recommend FCC treat all repeaters as repeaters
[snip] > > You're right-the definition is pretty loose. Some of it is dependant on > the intent. A UHF 'repeater' that has a 'normal' simplex or half-duplex > base station tied to it, and whose primary purpose is to repeat the 2M > signals to UHF and the UHF signals to 2M, is a remote base, and in > auxiliary operation. But a UHF 'repeater' that most users transmit on > the UHF input and listen on the UHF output, and once in a while someone > brings up the 2M base, is only a remote base when that is on-line, so it > is normally in repeater operation, and in auxiliary operation only when > the remote base is enabled. > Same with things like auto-patch: normally it's in repeater operation, > and can operate under automatic control, but when someone uses the > auto-patch, the station is no longer a repeater, but a > remotely-controlled base station, and requires a control op. > Even querying the controller for the time of day falls into that category. > -- Nope: 97.205(e) says: "Ancillary functions of a repeater that are available to users on the input channel are not considered remotely controlled functions of the station" 73, George, KA3HSW
