They can but if the person causing a problem is a mile away and the control
station is 5 miles away, the control station can't do much from that
distance because the other person's stronger, hence the reason for a second
receiver on another band. I have to admit I don't even have that on mine yet
but am working on it. I do have contact with workers in the building the
repeater's in though and if I need to shut it off in a hurry,I can call one
of them to pull the plug, they can't do much else since the rack cabinet is
locked and it's 20 feet up in a loft with no easy way up to it but it's
plugged in somewhat low so they can get to the plug. There's someone there
24/7 which is nice. There's not much chance of a problem on 900 MHz though
since for a while we controlled who had access to the band in this area. Now
stinko alinco has a radio for that band to it's a little more open but I
must admit I've only heard one of those radios so far, everyone still uses
the Motorola's, Kenwoods, and Johnsons around here, Motorola mostly and I do
a lot of the programming.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: Third party rules.
> John,
>
> Isn't that the purpose of a repeater's control station? The control
> station
> can disable the repeater if necessary, although not too many stations do
> so.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 22:21
> Subject: Re: Third party rules.
>
>
>>I don't see why not, if it's on vox or you hit the PTT, if something
>>happens
>> and you need to stop the transmition fast you can still do it if you're
>> patching someone else in through your station. then the whole topic of
>> repeaters comes up where you can't unless you can over power the other
>> station and shut it off if someone's doing something wrong, not many have
>> that option, a second receiver on another frequency is a much better
>> option
>> but I only know of one or 2 around here doing that.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: Third party rules.
>>
>>
>>> Yep, I agree. A similar discussion use to come up many years ago when
>>> we ran phone patches with the radios on vox. Some said I really wasn't
>>> controlling my station that is causing it to transmit. FCC said it was
>>> o.k. as I was still really in control and responsible.
>>> 73
>>> Butch
>>> WA0VJR
>>> Node 3148
>>> Wallace, ks.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 10 Aug
>>> 2012, Michael Thurman wrote:
>>>
>>>> what the rules specifically say are that you must ensure that your =
>>>> statio operates according to the rules and it leaves it up to you how
>>>> to
>>>> =
>>>> do it. for example if you know you can assure legal operation you can
>>>> be
>>>> =
>>>> across the room or on the other side of the house as long as you are =
>>>> willing to trust your license to the legal operation of your station. =
>>>> back before I got my license my elmer would just let me operate with
>>>> his
>>>> =
>>>> call sign because he knew I would follow the rules he set down for me.
>>>> =
>>>> same goes for my girlfriend I will let her work hf and I know she will
>>>> =
>>>> follow the rules, so I can gt a drink or do something else while she is
>>>> =
>>>> operating.=20
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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