Guys, a "trustee" in FCC licensing terms is someone other than the licensee who agrees to be responsible for the legal operation of a transmitter.
Back in the days when the FCC required a repeater to be licensed separately with its own callsign, the person responsible for its operation was a "trustee," because a club or other party was the licensee. When they did away with separate repeater licenses, there was no more need for trustees. If your callsign is on the repeater, you are the licensee, not the trustee. Similarly, on Field Day, if a bunch of guys get together and use the callsign of the group's only extra-class licensee as the station callsign for everyone operating, the guy who holds that callsign is the station licensee, not a trustee. If it's a club with a club callsign separate from any of the individuals, then someone must be a trustee for it. Are there any repeaters left using club callsigns? If so, those would be the only repeaters which still have trustees. Paul, AE4KR ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Wright To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] coordination? > Huh? ALL repeaters MUST have a license trustee!!! What ever callsign it > ID's with is the trustee, whether club or not. I agree each license has a trustee and only a person can be a trustee. A club can own I guess one can say a callsign and a designated officer of the club can desingate the trustee. However, I thought we were talking about repeaters and stations, not callsigns. The station or repeater does not have to use the trustee's callsign. Maybe I reading it wrong. 73, ron, n9ee/r Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome. On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM, wd8chl wrote: Ron Wright wrote: > > I'm not sure the callsign of the repeater is the trustee. I as a > trustee of my ham station can have another ham use my station using > their callsign. If operating outside their license, but within mine > they must include my call with theirs, but if repeater is operating > within say a Tech's license freq, but I am the trustee then the repeater > can ID with their call. > > All Ham Stations must have a trustee, but not necessarily ID with it. > > If a violation is sited both the trustee and the call being used can be > held responsible. Same with control ops. > > As with a club call there is a trustee, but the call is of the club. > Just the trustee has agreed to allow use of whatever station; HF, > repeater, etc. > Yikes...look up a ham call sign on the FCC ULS web site...the PERSON listed (there will ALWAYS be a person) IS the license trustee...ALWAYS! !!!! > > > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:19 AM, wd8chl 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... > > >
