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- Date: 28 Dec 90 05:40:23 GMT
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- ARRL Letter Volume 9 Number 24 November 29, 1990 - Page 4 of 5
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- FCC TWEAKS AMATEUR RULES
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- The Federal Communications Commission has addressed a number of
- proposals for changes to its Part 97 Rules for the Amateur Service, in
- response to petitions by the ARRL as well as several individuals. The
- Commission's Notice of Proposed Rule Making in Docket 90-561 was
- released Nov. 16. Here are the highlights:
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- * The ARRL asked that the terms "telecommand," telemetry," and "space
- telemetry" be defined in the Rules; FCC agreed. The terms "tactical
- call sign" and "digipeater" will not be codified.
-
- * ARRL sought an increase in the minimum number of club members
- necessary to apply for a club station license, from two to four. But
- the Commission noted that no new club station licenses have been
- issued for some 13 years and "we do not foresee that we will resume
- doing so," so the point was moot. The League continues to urge the
- Commission to resume the issuance of new club station licenses.
-
- * FCC declined a request to amend its Rule that states an Amateur
- station must be independent of all other radio apparatus installed on
- a ship or aircraft. The League's argument in this case was that a
- regulation already is in place prohibiting an Amateur signal from
- interfering with other apparatus aboard.
-
- * In the matter of prohibition of automatic control of Amateur stations
- when third party traffic is being handled, the League sought a rules
- revision to put the responsibility for the content of such traffic on
- the originating Amateur station. The Commission, however, maintained
- that traffic content is the responsibility of every station,
- including those who retransmit communications, and proposed no
- change.
-
- In a related matter, ARRL sought a clarification of Section 97.109(d),
- to emphasize that a Commission representative may order an
- automatically controlled station to shut down because of improper
- operation or harmful interference only after the alleged offending
- station has been given the opportunity for a hearing.
-
- FCC denied this, saying that "the control operator must cease automatic
- control of the station upon notification by an Engineer in Charge that
- the station is transmitting improperly or causing interference to other
- stations, and the licensee is not entitled to a hearing before such
- notification."
-
- * The FCC declined to amend its Rules to permit retransmissions of
- other services--NOAA weather and DOC propagation broadcasts--saying
- such transmissions are "routinely available over the air with
- inexpensive receivers."
-
- * The FCC agreed to amend its Rule regarding compensation of club
- station operators, lowering the number of simultaneous bands on which
- bulletins and code practice must be transmitted from ten to six.
-
- * A request to ease the FCC Rules regarding third party communications
- on behalf of someone holding an Amateur Radio license but not
- eligible to be a control operator of an FCC- licensed station was
- denied. The Commission said this had already been considered (in the
- most recent Rules rewrite) and denied at that time.
-
- * A request by an individual Amateur to require stations to identify at
- the beginning of communications through a repeater was not included
- in the proposals, but FCC asked for comments in the matter.
-
- * FCC declined to entertain a change in its Rules to incorporate
- due-process procedures in cases involving "quiet hours," saying that
- it was unnecessary.
-
- * In the area of Special Operations, FCC agreed to:
-
- 1. Amend its Rules to delete the condition that an auxiliary station
- can be automatically controlled only when it is part of a repeater
- system, so that Amateur operators can experiment with new system
- configurations that use auxiliary links;
-
- 2. Expand the permissible types of space telemetry transmissions as
- requested by the ARRL;
-
- 3. Make minor changes in wording, including changing "remote control"
- to "telecommand."
-
- * The FCC once again refused to change its Rules banning 10-meter power
- amplifiers, saying the ban "makes our enforcement procedures more
- efficient and effective."
-
- * A request that persons whose Amateur station or operator license has
- been revoked or suspended be allowed to qualify as a volunteer
- examiner after a 10-year period was turned down.
-
- Interested parties may file comments on or before Jan. 31, 1991; reply
- comments are due by March 4, 1991. Extensions of time are not
- contemplated, according to the FCC.
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