At 06:51 AM 5/8/2005, Rick Dougherty NQ4I wrote:
>Hi all...I have heard that there was a recent FCC action taken against a
>station that allowed a technician class ham who operated in a
>contest.....the FCC said that the control operator allowed him to make qso's
>with stations in a contest that he did not have 3rd party qualifications...I
>may have some of the details not quite correct, but the message is still
>valid...can a m-m have operators who are operating with privileges of the
>control operator?? Is the operator limited to the frequency limits of
>his/her class of license? Or am I simply overacting on something that's
>really not that important??
My current understanding is that the FCC enforcement area may not have
interpreted the rules involving 3rd party operation correctly. I've asked
for a clarification and will post whatever I find out.
If you read the original FCC enforcement action posted on the ARRL web site,
you'll see that this was probably not a mult-op activity, or even a single op
with a control operator present. The core issue seems to be that the
individual being cited had been warned previously about operating in band
segments he was not authorized to operate.
I believe the message forwarded by K1TTT about 3rd party issues and multi-ops
that (included a message to KI6X from ARRL) is still accurate.
-- Tom
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e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/
Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444
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