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Technician Class Series - Control - Everything Ham Radio
Technician Class Series – Control
August 2, 2015 May 18, 2016 K5CLM
Hello everybody and welcome back to week three of my Technician Class Series. This week we will be talking about Control. This section covers both control operators and control of your station. I have added a link on the menu bar up top to give you shortcuts to each section as I post them.
As always, the correct answers will be in bold. I also recommend that you only read the correct answers when studying for your test. If you do this, when you take your test and you see a question, there will be a betterÂ chance that the correct answer will jump out at you easier. Some say that this approach isÂ kind of like cheating, but the way that I see it, you will alwaysÂ be learning something in this hobby and you don’t have to know everything there is to know about the hobby to get your license.
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Let’s jump right into the questions for this week, shall we?
T1E01 When is an amateur station permitted to transmit without a control operator?
D. NeverÂ
T1E02 Who may a station licensee designate to be the control operator of an amateur station?
Â§97.7 Control operator required.
T8B01Â Who may be the control operator of a station communicating through an amateur satellite or space station?
Just like talking yourself on a frequency in the amateur radio spectrum. As long as you yourself can talk on that frequency, you can be a control operator for someone else to talk on them. Take Field Day for example, which at the time of this post just finished up a few weeks ago, ANYONE whether they have a license or not can talk on the radio as long as the license holder of the call sign they are using is legally able to talk on the frequency in use.
Â§97.103 Station licensee responsibilities.
As with anything else in life, a person is responsible for his/her own actions. So could someone else talk on your radio without your consent, sure. Would it be legal, no! It is just like someone driving your car. If you give person X permission to drive your car, then they can legally drive your car. If they steal it, then they don’t.
Let’s say that you have a good friend, maybe this friend even helped you to get into the hobby in the first place. One day, this friend comes over to your house and asked to use your HF radio. Being a good friend, you say “sure, go ahead”. Â So your friends, goes into your shack, and fires up your radio. They tune it to a frequency that is outside of your privileges as a Technician Class operator and key up and start talking. So far, so good, as long as they use their own call sign instead of yours. So while they are talking they do something they shouldn’t, who is responsible. Well, the answer is both of you, unfortunately. They are responsible because they were the one talking; you are responsible because they were using your equipment.
Amateur radio, just like most things in life, the more you put into something, the more you get out of it. The higher your license class, the more privileges that you will have to use. Â So, if you are the control operator of the station you are talking on, that is what will determine what privileges you have. If you are using someone else’s call sign and they are designated as the control operator, you will have the privileges of their license. This is what is used in field day events. Only one call sign will be used, personally I’d think someone with a General or above license class, and everyone else, whether they have a license or not, can talk anywhere that the license class of the call sign they are using can.
T1E12 When, under normal circumstances, may a Technician Class licensee be the control operator of a station operating in an exclusive Extra Class operator segment of the amateur bands?
Â§97.119 Station identification.
This is a big no-no! It doesn’t matter when or where you are, if you are the control operator of a station, you or anyone else that uses your call sign, can only operate where you are licensed to operate.
(14) Control point. The location at which the control operator function is performed
T1E09Â What type of control is being used when the control operator is at the control point?
Â§97.109 Station control.
This is one of those DUH questions I thinkâ€¦
Local(definition): pertaining to, characteristic of, or restricted to a particular place or particular places:
So if I, the control operator, were sitting at the control point, why in the world would I control the radio via radio? If I’m at the control point, I would be doing it manually, not automatically, and unless I’m not with myself, it wouldn’t be unattended, soâ€¦
T1E06 Under what type of control do APRS network digipeaters operate?
Â So, I guess APRS network digipeaters as “designated elsewhere in this part”. First off, what is APRS? APRS stands for Automatic Position Reporting System or unofficially I have heard some call it, Automatic Privacy Reduction System. APRS is normally used in conjunction with GPS where your position and other information is automatically transmitted at set intervals without human intervention, hence the answer being Automatic
T1E08 Which of the following is an example of automatic control?
Â§97.3 Definitions.
Â§97.205 Repeater station.
Ok, so all that Part 97 stuff being said, let’s go through the process of elimination. B, controlling via the internet; One question, are you pressing a button to transmit? Yes, therefore not automatic. C and D, are you at the control point? Both of these could possibly be the answer, because both C and D are used on Repeaters and repeaters are controlled by a “computer or other device”. However, the best answer is A, Repeater.
T1E10 Which of the following is an example of remote control as defined in Part 97?
This question is one of the questions that I always question, and here is why. If we eliminate, A, because we just talked about repeaters being automatic control, then we can also eliminate D because not all the choices are correct. That leaves B and C. To me, controlling a model plane, boat or car is remote control, hence the term remote-controlled car. However, the answer that the FCC wants here is B..
The question only calls for part (a) on this question according to the official question pool, but I threw in part (b) as well because it goes with the question a little better than (a) does I think. If someone is talking from a station but they don’t identify themselves, it is assumed that the person talking is who the station belongs to. Mainly because it is the owner of the equipment’s responsibility to make sure that it is not used without his/her permission.
T1D08 In which of the following circumstances may the control operator of an amateur station receive compensation for operating the station?
Â§97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
T1F10Â Who is accountable should a repeater inadvertently retransmit communications that violate the FCC rules?
As a trustee of two repeaters, there have been a couple times where I am glad that violations that are inadvertently retransmitted across the repeaters won’t come back to bite me. As an example of this, let’s say that you and a coworker are going to work and you are running late but your coworker is already there and says that he will let them know you are running late. So far, so good, still all legal. However, if you go on to ask him to have your secretary move the meeting back 30 minutes, now you have moved on to the illegal transmission because you just conducted business over the amateur band.
I hope that yall are finding this series of at least some interest. I know I have learned a couple of things that I either didn’t know or had forgotten and we are only on number three. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. Also, please subscribe to my blog, like me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Until next timeâ€¦
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