[CQ-Contest] 'borrowing a callsign'

[Doug Smith W9WI]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:18, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> I'm not sure I buy this.
> 
> Part 97.109 talks about control operators, and it's clear 
> that in a station being locally controlled (as it would 
> most likely be during a contest - it's not being remotely 
> or automatically controlled) the control operator must be 
> at the control point.  If someone is borrowing your callsign 
> and you're in the next county mowing your lawn, you are not 
> at the control point. 

The "someone" who's borrowing your callsign is the control operator. 
*They* must be present at the control point.

Consider the situation where the call being used is assigned to a club. 
Who, then, is the control operator?  Does the trustee have to be present
every time the club call is used?

(This debate would have gone away days ago if the FCC still issued
station licenses and operator licenses separately<grin>! -- or if it was
still required to keep a log with the name and signature of the control
operator on duty..)
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
http://www.w9wi.com