[TowerTalk] Remote Ham Radio

[K8RI]

On 8/5/2013 3:36 PM, Patrick Greenlee wrote:
> While I'm not going to rent a station, I fail to see how the FCC rules
> are broken.  Consider if you went to "RENT-ALL" and rented the
> components, transceiver, tower, and antenna. Whether or not the rental
> clerk, his boss, or the owner or stockholders are lisc hams is
> immaterial as they aren't doing any transmitting. So long as the
> equipment is operated within the rules no harm no foul.

>The difference is the station license and operator license are different.

Normally a club station is considered incidental to the operation of the 
club.

If the equipment and antennas were not licensed, then the FCC has no say 
as any ham can operate within their license.

It's splitting hairs, but legality often tests on a hair's width.
That a number of stations have operated this way for a number of years 
doesn't add credence to the operation, it only shows that the FCC is no 
longer paying attention to anything that doesn't cause problems.

I think it's a great idea, but I also think the regs prohibit it.

There are likely many on here who remember the old days and power limits 
when the FCC rigidly enforced those limits.  Now days, I'd bet you could 
run 10KW and if you didn't cause problems, no one would bother you.

I've routinely run 15 to 20 KW "ERP", legally.  1500 watts into a big 
array or even big antenna.  13 db gain gives you 30 KW erp.
I don't have anything capable of running excessive power.

73

Roger (K8Ri)