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Ham-Policy Digest           Thu, 24 Feb 94       Volume 94 : Issue   84

Today's Topics:
              I WANT MY EXTRA CLASS PERMIT NOW (3 msgs)
                     The *language* requirement!
               Two meter frequency allocations (4 msgs)
                                woops

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Date: 23 Feb 94 22:09:33 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!chip.ucdavis.edu![e-mail]
Subject: I WANT MY EXTRA CLASS PERMIT NOW
To: [e-mail]

Answering your own posts?   :-)

A great x ray technician! ([e-mail]) wrote:
: In article <[e-mail]>,
: Dan Pickersgill <[e-mail]> wrote:
: >I want my EXTRA class permit NOW! - I'm far too busy to work for it.
: >Don't you dare ask me to learn your CW, I'm far too important for that.
: >I've been waiting 3 years for you to change your rules to let me in, isn't
: >that long enough? Send it now and I'll stop whining to everybody.
: >Call me codeless in Ohio.

: It's not an Extra Class "permit," Dan. It's an Extra Class License.

: You've been waiting three years? WHAT have you been doing, since you
: obviously haven't been working on your upgrade. Ah...let me guess.
: You've been posting in rec.radio.amateur.policy. And whining.

: --
: Radiographers who are able to use a radiographic machine well are
: great assets to the health care facility in which they are employed.

:    --Dianne C. DeVos, "Basic Principles of Radiographic Exposure"


Dan
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 06:36:01 UTC
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!news.eunet.fi![e-mail]
Subject: I WANT MY EXTRA CLASS PERMIT NOW
To: [e-mail]

I want my EXTRA class permit NOW! - I'm far too busy to work for it.
Don't you dare ask me to learn your CW, I'm far too important for that.
I've been waiting 3 years for you to change your rules to let me in, isn't
that long enough? Send it now and I'll stop whining to everybody.
Call me codeless in Ohio.

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Date: 23 Feb 1994 03:28:25 -0600
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo.NeoSoft.com!sugar.NeoSoft.COM![e-mail]
Subject: I WANT MY EXTRA CLASS PERMIT NOW
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Dan Pickersgill <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I want my EXTRA class permit NOW! - I'm far too busy to work for it.
>Don't you dare ask me to learn your CW, I'm far too important for that.
>I've been waiting 3 years for you to change your rules to let me in, isn't
>that long enough? Send it now and I'll stop whining to everybody.
>Call me codeless in Ohio.

It's not an Extra Class "permit," Dan. It's an Extra Class License.

You've been waiting three years? WHAT have you been doing, since you
obviously haven't been working on your upgrade. Ah...let me guess.
You've been posting in rec.radio.amateur.policy. And whining.

--
Radiographers who are able to use a radiographic machine well are
great assets to the health care facility in which they are employed.

   --Dianne C. DeVos, "Basic Principles of Radiographic Exposure"

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Date: 23 Feb 94 23:44:18 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ssd.intel.com!chnews!scorpion![e-mail]
Subject: The *language* requirement!
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
David R Tucker <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I've been thinking about the morse code requirement in the light of
>the discussion we've been having on language in this group, and I have
>an idea...

>I suggest we get rid of the code requirement - and substitute a
>*language* requirement!...

>There's no reason morse code couldn't be one of the "languages" (if
>you'll pardon the term) which people could master...


You'll get my vote in a nanosecond if you also include computer
languages on the approved list.

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Date: 23 Feb 94 20:53:10 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!gatech!wa4mei.ping.com!ke4zv![e-mail]
Subject: Two meter frequency allocations
To: [e-mail]

In article <gdavis.762015940@griffin> [e-mail] (Gary Davis) writes:
> Our University station is struggling with the student association for
>funding and as a result we put a 2 meter- cross band- remote base on
>the air. At the time it seemed as if an acceptable input frequency
>would be in the miscellaneous (uses) allocation. We put our input on
>145.775 ( an unused frequency in the area). Soon we we pounced on by
>the local coordinator who said we were in violation of part 97 since
>what we had was not a remote base, rather a repeater.
>
>I called ARRL legal counsel and he concluded that we did not have a
>repeater since we do the following:
>
>1. turn it on and off when used
>
>2. do-not operate or occupy the frequency 24 hours a day
>
>However, the local coordinator has said that any radio that uses any
>form of automatic T/R switching constitutes a repeater!
>Therefore, he contends we are in violation of part 97?
>In any event we change frequencies today, but are there any opinions
>on exactly what constitutes a repeater.

97.3(a)(35) Repeater. An amateur station that automatically retransmits
the signals of other stations.

If its transmitter is not controlled on and off *for each transmission*
by a control operator, but rather will go into transmit when it hears a
signal from any other station on it's input frequency, it's a repeater.
And repeaters can only be legally operated in a band segment where repeater
operation is permitted. The local coordinator is correct.

There is no such thing as a "remote base" in the rules. There are remotely
controlled stations. To qualify as a remotely controlled station, its
transmitter PTT must be controlled *only* by a control operator using a
station running in auxillary operation, above 222 MHz, or by wireline.
Even if you designated everyone who uses it as a "control operator",
you still can't use 2 meters as the control channel since auxillary
operation isn't permitted there.

You *can* operate a cross band repeater *as long as both input and
output frequencies are in band segments where repeater operation is
permitted*. But you must comply with all the other repeater rules such
as IDing, and having a means of positive control *not on the repeater
input frequency*. (Yeah, most people's cross band operations *are*
illegal.) And if you cause interference to a coordinated repeater,
say by accidentally crosslinking two existing machines, *you* are
primarily responsible for resolving the problem.

Gary
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Destructive Testing Systems |    we break it.     | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary
534 Shannon Way             |    Guaranteed!      | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
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Date: 24 Feb 94 00:31:22 GMT
From: world![e-mail]
Subject: Two meter frequency allocations
To: [e-mail]

In article <gdavis.762015940@griffin> [e-mail] (Gary Davis) writes:
> Our University station is struggling with the student association for
>funding and as a result we put a 2 meter- cross band- remote base on
>the air. At the time it seemed as if an acceptable input frequency
>would be in the miscellaneous (uses) allocation. We put our input on
>145.775 ( an unused frequency in the area). Soon we we pounced on by

Where is your local area? By the way, the 145.51 to 145.80 part of the
band plan is labeled "experimental use". While the band plan is a
gentleman's agreement and not law, one should consider abiding by it.
Remote bases are not really all that experimental.

>the local coordinator who said we were in violation of part 97 since
>what we had was not a remote base, rather a repeater.

You are operating under automatic control. Consider the station a repeater
or under auxiliary control, but the requirements are the same.

>
>I called ARRL legal counsel and he concluded that we did not have a
>repeater since we do the following:
>
>1. turn it on and off when used

I don't see anything in the rules that covers part time versus full time
operation.

>
>2. do-not operate or occupy the frequency 24 hours a day
>
>However, the local coordinator has said that any radio that uses any
>form of automatic T/R switching constitutes a repeater!
>Therefore, he contends we are in violation of part 97?
>In any event we change frequencies today, but are there any opinions
>on exactly what constitutes a repeater.

You do in fact have a station under automatic control. I take it the
device IDs properly every 10 minutes on 145.775 when active? Under
automatic control it MUST ID.

You do have a way to control the device other than on 145.775, correct?
I is necessary to have a secondary control capability, whenther that be
landline or RF on 220MHz or up.

>
>In my opinion, when the law was enacted, a repeater was construyed to
>be a remote system with inputs/outputs in the same band and not a box
>which is turned on or off before and after use.

Nothing in the repeater rules limits the devices to dual frequencies on
one band. Packet systems, simplex repeaters, and anything which you cannot
directly reach out and touch are covered by the rules. All of these
are special uses and are described by what's there.

>
>I cannot see how our occupany of the frequency is much different from
>sporatic "simplex" operation.
>
>73-- Gary
>
>--
>            ******** Gary E. Davis***** WQ1F *****
> The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the
> palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.-H.L.Mencken


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Date: 24 Feb 94 00:37:32 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com![e-mail]
Subject: Two meter frequency allocations
To: [e-mail]

Gary Davis ([e-mail]) wrote:
:  Our University station is struggling with the student association for
: funding and as a result we put a 2 meter- cross band- remote base on
: the air. At the time it seemed as if an acceptable input frequency
: would be in the miscellaneous (uses) allocation. We put our input on
: 145.775 ( an unused frequency in the area). Soon we we pounced on by
: the local coordinator who said we were in violation of part 97 since
: what we had was not a remote base, rather a repeater.

I'm a little confused as to how you have this set up.  Are you going
in on say 440, and coming out on 2m?  Or are you going in on 2m on
one freq, and coming out on another 2m freq, i.e is it in-band or
outa band.

One problem you do have is defining a remote base. There ain't no
such animal in the rules...so it is assumed to be allowed since
it isn't prohibited.  I guess an acceptable common definition might
be an ancillary(as oppossed to auxiliary ;-) transceiver providing
access to another band that can be switched on and off.  Is this
what you have?  Again....what are the frequencies involved here?.

Another simple point is that the "coordinator" doesn't  have any
more clue about the rules that the rest of us ;-) His statement is
simply his opinion and doesn't carry any more weight than an OO
or your nearest ham radio neighbor.  Now if the FCC says otherwise...
then you got problems ;-)  So whatever you do..don't ask them!

Steve KA6S

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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 15:05:40 GMT
From: emba-news.uvm.edu!griffin![e-mail]
Subject: Two meter frequency allocations
To: [e-mail]

 Our University station is struggling with the student association for
funding and as a result we put a 2 meter- cross band- remote base on
the air. At the time it seemed as if an acceptable input frequency
would be in the miscellaneous (uses) allocation. We put our input on
145.775 ( an unused frequency in the area). Soon we we pounced on by
the local coordinator who said we were in violation of part 97 since
what we had was not a remote base, rather a repeater.

I called ARRL legal counsel and he concluded that we did not have a
repeater since we do the following:

1. turn it on and off when used

2. do-not operate or occupy the frequency 24 hours a day

However, the local coordinator has said that any radio that uses any
form of automatic T/R switching constitutes a repeater!
Therefore, he contends we are in violation of part 97?
In any event we change frequencies today, but are there any opinions
on exactly what constitutes a repeater.

In my opinion, when the law was enacted, a repeater was construyed to
be a remote system with inputs/outputs in the same band and not a box
which is turned on or off before and after use.

I cannot see how our occupany of the frequency is much different from
sporatic "simplex" operation.

73-- Gary

--
            ******** Gary E. Davis***** WQ1F *****
 The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the
 palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.-H.L.Mencken

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Date: 23 Feb 94 22:09:51 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!astro.as.utexas.edu![e-mail]
Subject: woops
To: [e-mail]

Please 'scuse the posting about 5B4ADA, it was supposed to go
to r.r.a.misc.   Also please excuse my now having to post this,
apologizing for the previous post, thus having to apologize
for two posts.   Let me guess - you guys are still debating
whether the code test is a good idea.  Well, back to it!

Derek "used to read this group" Wills (AA5BT, G3NMX)
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas,
Austin TX 78712.  (512-471-1392)
[e-mail]

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Date: 24 Feb 94 06:14:24 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!swrinde!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo.NeoSoft.com!sugar.NeoSoft.COM![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <2kf7jp$[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>inde
Subject : Re: I WANT MY EXTRA CLASS PERMIT NOW

In article <[e-mail]>,
Daniel D. Todd <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Answering your own posts?   :-)

Not hardly.

--
Radiographers who are able to use a radiographic machine well are
great assets to the health care facility in which they are employed.

   --Dianne C. DeVos, "Basic Principles of Radiographic Exposure"

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Date: 23 Feb 94 13:21:15 GMT
From: nprdc!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!ub!newserve!sarah!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!arrl.org![e-mail].
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>.eng
Subject : Re: Exams are Trivial?

Jeff Herman ([e-mail]) wrote:

: In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Dan Pickersgill) writes:

: >But Jeff, there are many reasons for Amateur Radio to exist besides the
: >tech portion (aside from the fact that that area interests me greatly).
: >Why do you diminish the value of those areas of the Service?

: Dan: I don't mean to sound like I am diminishing the value of the
: dozens of other areas of our wonderful hobby. But the common back-
: round - that area that is supposed to tie us together - is the
: technical area. From that we branch out and have fun in our chosen
: niche. But whatever that niche is, whether it's moonbounce, public
: service, DX, TV, whatever - it will depend in part on our technical
: knowledge.

This may sound strange from someone working in the ARRL Technical
Department, but I don't believe that there is any one area, technical
or operating, that MUST be part of a ham's interests. There are those
who get their licenses just to be able to operate their favorite
modes. There are those who get their licenses just so they can put
the transmitter on the air after they build it. Insofar as the
law allows such conduct, I think it is okay for a ham to love or
hate the technical aspects of ham radio, or love or hate any
operating (or other) aspect of ham radio.

I do agree that the technical aspect of the service is an important
one, and as hams we can and should encourage each other's technical
growth. But encouragement means just that -- to even imply that
if someone is not technical, they are not a real ham, is going
quite a bit past "encouragement."

: I've purposely picked this branch of our hobby because I've read
: on here statements such as `Why do I need to know the technical
: matters if I only want to work in public service?'

Why do I need to know anything about operating? I only want to put
a carrier on the air and ID to actually test the transmitter I
just built? (This question was raised only to make a point.)
In reality, amateur testing covers operating and technical areas,
because any one of us can explore any aspect of ham radio.

: Well, no one in their right mind would want to fool around with the
: internals of a modern handheld, but the two things that we DO have control
: over, and we should be well-schooled in, is the power source
: and the antenna.

Well, there are lots of people not in their right mind in ham radio! :-).
I can buy a power source; I can buy an antenna; I can buy the radio;
I can buy the microphone. Then, I can pay someone to install them
in my home and car and just operate. And, if the FCC hears about it,
they won't take my license. :-).

I have offered my personal comments on this issue not to try to say
that you are wrong, because I personally feel that the technical aspects
of the service ARE quite important. I just don't agree that hams MUST
pursue them. And I think that hams who don't pursue the technical
dream are just a good a ham as I am, better in some cases! After all,
I check into our local traffic net about once every three years. I have
never ran across an auto accident and reported it over my local repeater.
I stayed indoors during the last hurricane. There are hams who claim
that you MUST be involved with public service or you are not really into
ham radio.

Put yourself into the shoes of someone with zero technical interest,
and even less ability. How would you feel about the statement that the
technical aspects of ham radio are the MOST important? If it were true,
would that not diminish you and your accomplishments. If you were
not technical, would you be more likely to learn some technical things
from someone who held them up as the only worthwhile goal of Amateur Radio,
or from someone who just demonstrated enthusiasm for things technical.

Either way, enjoy your version of ham radio. As I heard Jim Kearman
say, it is a thousand hobbies rolled into one!

73 from ARRL HQ, Ed
--

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Ed Hare, KA1CV                  [e-mail]
American Radio Relay League

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