A "remote base" is technically a "Remotely controlled station" in
FCC-eeze. It's all very clearly defined in Part 97.
Joe M.
Paul Plack wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> <mailto:[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.
>
>
>
>
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