Joe,
"Semantics" implies the distinctions are trivial. If an obsolete term is in
common usage, it's a valid topic here, whether aromatic or not. When hams
communicate with the FCC or try to interpret the regs with undefined or
incorrect vocabulary, misunderstandings arise.
("Remote base" comes to mind.)
73,
Paul, AE4KR
----- Original Message -----
From: MCH
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] coordination?
A licensee is a person who is authorized to do something.
A trustee is a person *entrusted* with something.
(That's the legal definition of a trustee)
That something could be a repeater or a coordination or a license, or
any combination of these. In the case of my repeaters, I'm trustee of
all three - the license, the repeater, and the coordination.
So, a single person could be both a licensee and a trustee. Certainly
that person is the trustee for their personal license.
It doesn't have to be an FCC definition - it's a legal definition and
one which the FCC must honor unless they want to define it differently
in their rules. In the absense of any FCC definition, they are bound by
the legal definition.
This is like arguing that a licensee isn't an entity since the FCC has
no definition of an entity.
Now, let's please end the discussion on semantics. The decaying horse is
really beginning to smell.
Joe M.
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Paul Plack wrote:
>
> Ron, not in any legal sense. You're the licensee. If, by "trustee,"
> you mean the guy into whose care the club "entrusts" the repeater,
> that's OK, but not an FCC definition.
