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SB QST @ ARRL $ARLB079
ARLB079 Business rule to change
QST de W1AW
ARRL Bulletin 79 ARLB079
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT July 21, 1993
To all radio amateurs
"Business rule" to change
The FCC has amended its rules to allow amateur operators more
flexibility to provide communications for public service projects
and to "enhance the value of the amateur service in satisfying
personal communications needs."
The new rules are based on a Commission proposal announced in a
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in July, 1992, a proposal resulting
from an ARRL request. The League at that time suggested that new
language for the rules would permit amateurs greater flexibility in
providing noncommercial communications while maintaining the
traditional character of Amateur Radio by continuing to prohibit
routine business communications.
The Commission in announcing the rules change (in PR Docket 92-136)
said the new rules would permit amateurs to "facilitate events such
as races and parades, to support educational activities, to provide
personal communications such as making appointments and ordering
food, to collect data for the National Weather Service, and to
provide assistance voluntarily even where there are other authorized
radio services available."
The FCC stopped short of granting an ARRL request for further
definition of acceptable communications, particularly in the
difference between a regular and an irregular event, saying that
providing such anecdotal examples "would necessitate that the FCC
intrude upon the day-to-day functioning of the service to a far
greater degree than desired." The FCC said that generating a list
of the thousands of possible examples would unduly tax the
Commission's staff.
The wording of the new rules is not yet available and thus the new
rules are not yet in effect. The full text of the FCC's NPRM is in
September 1992 QST, page 62.
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