Every repeater has a trustee just like every license has a trustee. It may not be the same person, but often times it is. My local coordination entity requires that *IF* the trustee of the coordination is a club, the trustee is the trustee for the FCC license.
Now, can we get off the semantics debate? Joe M. Ron Wright wrote: > > 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 talkng 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 sttion 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 wit 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 culd 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... > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1433 - Release Date: 5/14/2008 > 4:44 PM
