--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Christopher Hodgdon <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Christopher Hodgdon <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 6:43 PM
> Ok, I have a question that has been
> bothering me over the last few days. I had mentioned
> that we wanted to use our repeater to send out a set of
> tones to activate fire style pager (this was some time ago)
> and people said we should not do it for one reason or
> another. One of those reasons was that it might be
> considered a one way broadcast and not legal under FCC rules
> for amateur radio.
>
> That being said, I know that some people have come on here
> and asked about using a weather radio on their repeater
> system, etc. Having it setup to send out alerts over
> the repeater when they come in. Would this not also be
> considered a 1 way broadcast for reception by general
> public, per-say.
>
> How can you legally include a weather alert radio in a
> repeater setup and have it function as required?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>From the rules at ARRL.org
(b) In addition to one-way transmissions specifically authorized elsewhere in
this Part, an amateur station may transmit the following types of one-way
communications:
(1) Brief transmissions necessary to make adjustments to the station;
(2) Brief transmissions necessary to establishing two-way communications with
other stations;
(3) Telecommand;
(4) Transmissions necessary to providing emergency communications;
(5) Transmissions necessary to assisting persons learning, or improving
proficiency in, the international Morse code;
(6) Transmissions necessary to disseminate information bulletins;
(7) Transmissions of telemetry.
...........................................................................
Tones for the activation of pagers are Telecommand and information bulletins.
The WX is either emergency or information bulletins.
Also the WX retransmission is speciffically addressed as:
(e) No station shall retransmit programs or signals emanating from any type of
radio station other than an amateur station, except propagation and weather
forecast information intended for use by the general public and originated from
United States Government stations, and communications, including incidental
music, originating on United States Government frequencies between a manned
spacecraft and its associated Earth stati
