Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 04:30:38 PDT From: Ham-Space Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Space-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Space@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Space Digest V94 #268 To: Ham-Space Ham-Space Digest Fri, 23 Sep 94 Volume 94 : Issue 268 Today's Topics: RS-10 and license classes Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Space Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-space". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 22 Sep 1994 18:39:00 GMT From: solaris.cc.vt.edu!vtaix.cc.vt.edu!billkuhn@uunet.uu.net Subject: RS-10 and license classes To: ham-space@ucsd.edu I have a question regarding license classes required to use satellites such as RS-10. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am giving a talk on satellites to our club tomorrow evening, and inquiring minds will want to know... The uplink to RS-10 is on 2 meters. The downlink is on 10 meters. Is it legal for a No-Code Tech to transmit to the satellite and have his/her signal transponded to 10 meters? That is, can they use the satellite for QSOs? The answer to this is certainly not obvious to me. The no-code is licensed to use 2 meters, but not 10 meters. They are transmitting on 2 meters, which is perfectly legal, but they are also transmitting (indirectly by way of the transponder) on 10 meters which does not seem legal. I am a member of AMSAT and have numerous books covering the satellites, but this question seems to not be addressed anywhere! It seems like this would be one of the first things one would want to know. If you know the answer, please post it together with a source of where this is clearly spelled out (maybe buried in the FCC regs somewhere, hopefully...). Thanks in advance for your help. Bill Kuhn KO4MH ------------------------------ End of Ham-Space Digest V94 #268 ******************************