[CQ-Contest] Fwd: Re: KU1CW location

[N4ZR]

I accidentally omitted CQ-Contest from the addressees to this message. I 
think it strikes to the heart of the third party issue.

73, Pete N4ZR



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Subject: 	Re: [CQ-Contest] KU1CW location
Date: 	Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:53:28 -0400
From: 	N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net>
To: 	sawyered at earthlink.net



Why would this be, Ed?  The entire purpose of the prohibition on 3d 
party communications is to preclude competition with commercial 
telecommunication companies, which are often state-run..  If an operator 
signs the call of the station from which he's operating, if there is a 
control operator in charge, and if the messages are being sent *on 
behalf of* that station, where is the third-party issue?

Before you cite the ARRL's opinion on unlicensed operators at Field Day, 
let me be clear that I don't believe they thought this through. If Joe 
Unlicensed is operating at N4ZR/3, and he sends "1A MD" to a DX station 
without a 3d party agreement with the US, and I'm there serving as the 
control op, I contend there is no violation of the third-party rule.  
It's a question of content, not the voice (or fist) involved.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 6/8/2017 6:18 AM, Ed Sawyer 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.
>
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> 73
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> Ed  N1UR
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