According to 47CFR97, a trustee is the licensed person
of record for club stations.
Repeaters can be operated by any class license (valid
for the frequency, of course). While the person who's
callsign is on the repeater's ID could be considered a
trustee, there's no requirement for that title as far
as repeaters are concerned. If you search for
[trustee] in Part 97, you don't find it in the areas
where repeaters are mentioned.
I consider myself a trustee since I own and operate
two repeaters. I have posted a copy of my amateur
license at each site. Nothing on that piece of paper
specifically mentions repeater service or trusteeship.
I'm also a control operator for my own repeaters as
well as a couple of others; again nothing special
about that function, but it is mentioned in Part 97.
The owner of a repeater and the licensee who's
callsign is used to identify a repeater, don't have to
be the same person.
I think we're splitting hairs here and talking about
the same thing, just in a different way.
Bob M.
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--- wd8chl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob M. wrote:
>
> > Regarding trustees: club stations certainly need
> one.
> > I think it's just customary even for privately
> owned
> > repeaters to have trustees, even if it's in name
> only,
> > and it could certainly be the station owner, but
> it
> > doesn't have to be. A repeater could be owned by a
> > novice (who couldn't use it) but an extra class
> person
> > could be the trustee.
>
> __/
> o_O
>
> Huh? ALL repeaters MUST have a license trustee!!!
> What ever callsign it
> ID's with is the trustee, whether club or not.
>
> It's only a matter of whether the license is valid
> or not...
