On 1/13/2014 11:28 AM, D. Ryan Spott wrote: > For those of you that own towers or just know... What do HAM operators > usually get charged for colocation? > No personal experience doing this, but as an old ham, I would be surprised if many hams paid anything! One of the core skills of hamdom is talking your way onto the towers you need. ;-) Or finding free sites. Note that ham radio is prohibited from doing anything commercial, no revenue allowed at all. (Ordering a pizza via autopatch was very controversial until the FCC clarified it. Of course cell phones made autopatches a lot less interesting.) And it does provide public safety. So ham repeaters often got free access. But tend not to go onto the big CMRS towers.
Not that I've had all that much contact with ham repeater owners outside of this area in the years since I edited the 1976 World Atlas of Repeaters. -- Fred R. Goldstein k1io fred "at" interisle.net Interisle Consulting Group +1 617 795 2701 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
