Here it is guys, from ARRL HQ. I sent the following message and got the
reply that follows my message. Looks like as long as the op has his
liscence, he can talk to anyone, anywhere under the higher class
liscence.
>From: ke1fo
>To: reginfo
>Subject: Contesting/3rd party question
>
>I have a question regarding Multi Single operating in contests and the
>liscence class of the participants. Here is the scenario.
>
>The contest group is using an extra class callsign for the event, but
>not all the operators are extra class. Can the "non extra" hams operate
>outside their liscence priviliges while using the extra callsign? And
>if they can, do they have to limit their contacts to countries with
>which the US holds a valid 3rd party aggrement?
>
>If this is not the appropriate person to recieve this message, please
>let me knwo who to send it to or foward it to them for me. Thanks in
>advance.
>
>Al, KE1FO
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Subject: CORRECTION: Contesting/3rd party questio
From: "Hogerty, Tom, KC1J" <thogerty@arrl.org>
To: ke1fo <ke1fo@contesting.com>
Al,
On further investigation I found that my original response to you is
incorrect.
The correct answer is yes, it is legal. It is also legal for the "3rd
party"
to pass a message as
well. Note the end of Section 97.115(a)(2) "This prohibition does not
apply
to a message for any third party who is eligible to be a control
operator of
the station". While not clear from this rule, it is clear from the
Report &
Order that implemented the new rules in 1989 that if the "3rd party" is
a
licensed amateur (regardless of license class or country of issue) the
international 3rd party prohibition does not apply.
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
73,
Tom Hogerty, KC1J
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