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"?
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Michael Adams | mda@n1en.org
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ria
Jairam
Sent: Thursday, 8 June, 2017 07:36
To: cq-contest@contesting.com; sawyered@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@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.
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