Paul,
I would think it would more correct to say the call on a repeater or
other station is not necessarily the trustee. My call is on my repeater
and I am also the trustee.
73, ron, n9ee/r
Ron Wright, N9EE
727-376-6575
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Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL
No tone, all are welcome.
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Paul Plack wrote:
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
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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...
