Third-party limits, 10 m repeaters, interference duties, ITU regions, and automatic digital stations.
Syllabus: Control categories; repeater regulations; third-party rules; ITU regions; automatically controlled digital station
Compendium articles on the ideas in this lesson, beyond what the exam asks.
Practise the 11 pool questions for this group. Answers are shuffled, and every one comes with a one-line "why".
A revoked license disqualifies a third party. Citizenship and language don't. Remote control changes nothing: if the rules allow third-party messages, they may go by remote control.
The repeater is transmitting on 10 m, so its control operator needs HF privileges: at least General. The Technician's own license only covers the 2 m input.
RememberNear a monitoring station, on a secondary band, or with spread spectrum: avoid interference.
The ITU splits the world into three regions with their own allocations. North and South America are Region 2.
Automatic digital stations may talk to each other on 6 m and shorter wavelengths and in limited HF segments. Elsewhere a human-controlled station must start the contact.