[CQ-Contest] KU1CW location

[Michael Adams]

I really shouldn't join in the armchair lawyering, but I can't resist tossing this out into the sandbox:

Part 97.115(a)(2) (part):  No station shall transmit messages for a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government whose administration has not made such an arrangement. This prohibition does not apply to a message for any third party who is eligible to be a control operator of the station.

For non-remote operations, this means that the third party prohibition doesn't apply if the third party is a ham.  A tech could work anywhere on the phone bands during a DX contest if an Extra is the official control operator.

For remote operations, I can read that clause two ways.  One the one hand, a CEPT-eligible operator who is physically located outside the US would be eligible to be a control operator of the station if he/she were physically in the U.S.   On the other hand, he/she is not physically in the U.S.

Has the FCC ever opined on whether "eligible to be a control operator" means "eligible and not remote"?

-- 
Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ria Jairam
Sent: Thursday, 8 June, 2017 07:36
To: cq-contest at contesting.com; sawyered at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] KU1CW location

I was thinking that as well. My children talk on the radio (under my
supervision) They don't have licenses. I keep a list of countries with which we have third party agreements and only talk to those.

Ria
N2RJ

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:03 AM Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am quite sure that if a person is unlicensed, and operating your 
> station (with you as the control operator), the third party country rules apply.
> No
> contacts can be made with any country with which the US does not have 
> a third party agreement.  No problem on Field Day.  A big problem in a 
> DX contest.