Questions tagged [legal]
Questions regarding laws or other legal regulations pertaining directly to amateur radio. Also tag your question with the relevant location. If in doubt, always seek professional legal advice.
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How are secret encodings not a violation of amateur radio regulations?
This question asks if proprietary encodings are "in keeping with the nature of" of ham radio. The accepted answer notes, at least in regard to FCC regulations, that if anyone can buy ...
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US Permanent Resident operating in Canada
I am a US Permanent Resident with an Extra-class license from the FCC. I'm looking to operate when I visit Canada, but everything I'm seeing on the ARRL and RAC sites specifies Citizen.
Are there ...
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Versatile unlicensed use hand-held units
I'm doing a bit of research, as a newbie interested in a versatile walkie/HT to be used in Spain, mainly for mountaineering purposes. As far as I've read, it's possible to receive and emit in PMR446 (...
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Are Baofeng radios illegal in the US?
After having acquired a Baofeng, 5 days later, I found out that it is illegal. For the people who say my question is a duplicate and downvoted my question: I know about this question being the same as ...
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Are there any stations other than W1AW that fall under 47 CFR 97.113(a)(3)(iv)?
47 CFR 97.113(a)(3) normally prohibits amateurs from transmitting
[c]ommunications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an ...
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3rd party rules
Why are there 3rd party rules?
http://arrl.org/third-party-operating-agreements lists the countries we are allowed to pass 3rd party messages from.
The fcc regulations specifically state that 3rd ...
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Is it legal to practice using a one-time pad?
Imagine two people want to practice the procedure for sending and receiving messages over amateur radio that are encrypted using a one-time pad. Here’s what doing this for real would look like:
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Can I use APRS TCP/IP abroad?
I'm in Europe and sometimes while I'm driving I send my position using aprsdroid on my phone through aprs-is service. One local ham are threatening me because I'm digipeating using my foreign callsign ...
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Published Ship radio communaction by broadcasting company [closed]
I am unsure if I am in the right department here because it is not amateur radio, but maybe nevertheless somebody can clarify.
Surely everybody has heard about the burning car freighter Freementle ...
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Kosher to setup a D-Star (or DV) repeater on 10m?
Equipment availability and other logistics aside, is it kosher in the US to fire up a D-Star (or other digital voice) repeater in the appropriate portion of 10m? I haven't been able to find any ...
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Is it possible to comply with FCC regulations using a mode that takes over ten minutes to send a call sign?
Is there any legal way to use an extremely slow mode that takes over ten minutes to send a call sign?
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Operating on the US-Canada Border
How would one identify if one were operating from a location directly on the US/Canada border? Wxxxx/VEx or Wxxxx?
How about POTA? If I were to operate a POTA twofer on the boundary at the border of ...
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Could a non-licensee transmit to a licensed person remotely, if the licensed person ensures they follow laws?
Let's suppose that Person A, who does not have a license, would like to contact Person B, who is licensed, over an amateur radio frequency. I know that under certain circumstances, Person A would be ...
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How do equipment manufacturers test equipment? [duplicate]
How do manufacturers of ham radio equipment test the devices they sell without violating laws against commercial use of ham radio frequencies?
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Is there any legal recourse against unauthorized usage of a private repeater in the USA?
Can the FCC revoke an amateur license for unwelcomed use of another amateur's private/closed repeater system?
It's clear that private repeaters are allowed, per 47 CFR 97.205(e):
Limiting the use of ...
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