WEBVTT NOTE Identification, Repeaters, and Third Parties 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.322 The identification rule, in full. At least every 10 minutes during, and at the end of, a communication. 2 00:00:07.322 --> 00:00:20.687 Ten minutes, not fifteen, the GMRS interval is fifteen, and holding both licences is exactly how people get them confused. Amateur is ten. Four details the pool tests separately: Language. 3 00:00:20.687 --> 00:00:30.994 For a phone emission, identify in English. Other languages are permitted for the conversation; the identification itself must be English. Method. 4 00:00:30.994 --> 00:00:44.999 For a station transmitting phone signals, send the call sign using a CW or phone emission. You may speak it or send it in Morse; a digital-mode identifier is not sufficient on a phone transmission. 5 00:00:44.999 --> 00:00:48.553 Tactical call signs do not replace your call sign. 6 00:00:48.553 --> 00:01:04.121 Using "Race Headquarters" or "Net Control" is permitted and useful, and you still identify with your FCC-assigned call sign at least every 10 minutes during and at the end of the communication. Self-assigned indicators. 7 00:01:04.121 --> 00:01:14.073 Appending something to your call sign, /M for mobile, /QRP, a location, is acceptable, and the pool answers "all these choices are correct". 8 00:01:14.073 --> 00:01:23.386 The requirement is only that the indicator not conflict with a prefix assigned to another country and not be misleading. Repeaters. 9 00:01:23.386 --> 00:01:33.901 Question. What type of amateur station simultaneously retransmits the signal of another amateur station on a different channel or channels? 10 00:01:34.801 --> 00:01:37.735 Answer. Repeater station. 11 00:01:38.335 --> 00:01:54.135 Simultaneously and on a different frequency, that pair distinguishes a repeater from a store-and-forward digipeater and from a simple relay. The accountability question is the one worth internalising: 12 00:01:54.135 --> 00:02:04.134 Question. Who is accountable if a repeater inadvertently retransmits communications that violate the FCC rules? 13 00:02:05.034 --> 00:02:10.114 Answer. The control operator of the originating station. 14 00:02:10.714 --> 00:02:26.928 The person who said it, not the repeater owner. This is deliberate and it is fair: a repeater cannot evaluate content in real time, so responsibility rests with whoever put the transmission on the air. 15 00:02:26.928 --> 00:02:33.785 It also means "the repeater carried it" is not a defence. Third-party communications. 16 00:02:33.785 --> 00:02:39.745 Question. What is the definition of third-party communications? 17 00:02:40.645 --> 00:02:49.965 Answer. A message from a control operator to another amateur station control operator on behalf of another person. 18 00:02:50.565 --> 00:03:00.202 You are the first party, the station you are working is the second, and anyone on whose behalf the message travels is the third. 19 00:03:00.202 --> 00:03:14.280 Letting a non-licensed visitor speak into your microphone is third-party traffic, with you as control operator throughout. Domestically this is straightforward. Internationally it is not: 20 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:28.413 Question. Which of the following restrictions apply when a non-licensed person speaks to a foreign amateur radio station via a station under the control of an FCC-licensed amateur radio operator? 21 00:03:29.313 --> 00:03:37.313 Answer. The foreign station must be in a country with which the U.S. has a third-party agreement. 22 00:03:37.913 --> 00:03:50.540 Not every country has one. The list is published and worth checking before handing the microphone to a visitor for an international contact. Club stations. 23 00:03:50.540 --> 00:03:57.489 Question. Which of the following is a requirement for the issuance of a club station license grant? 24 00:03:58.389 --> 00:04:03.589 Answer. The club must have at least four members. 25 00:04:04.189 --> 00:04:20.429 Four. Plus a trustee who holds an amateur licence and takes responsibility for the station. Club licences are how a group holds a call sign that outlives any individual member. FCC inspection. 26 00:04:20.429 --> 00:04:28.589 Question. When must the station licensee make the station and the station records available for inspection? 27 00:04:29.489 --> 00:04:35.689 Answer. At any time upon request by an FCC representative. 28 00:04:36.289 --> 00:04:42.284 Any time, on request. No notice period, no warrant requirement in the rule. 29 00:04:42.284 --> 00:04:56.033 In practice inspections are rare and usually follow an interference complaint, but the obligation is unconditional and it is part of what the licence costs. Check yourself. 30 00:04:56.033 --> 00:05:11.940 You have been running a net as "Net Control" for 25 minutes. What have you owed, and when? A visitor to your station says something prohibited, and it goes out through a repeater. Who is accountable? 31 00:05:11.940 --> 00:05:21.213 Your unlicensed neighbour wants to greet an amateur in another country from your station. What must you check first? 32 00:05:27.213 --> 00:05:39.525 Your FCC-assigned call sign, at least every 10 minutes and at the end. A tactical call sign never substitutes for it. You, the control operator of the originating station. 33 00:05:39.525 --> 00:05:50.253 The repeater's owner is not accountable for what it inadvertently carries. That the other country has a third-party agreement with the United States.