An old issue, Richard.

97.1 must follow from the Radio Regulations (the governing treaty).  Hams can’t operate an transmitter because they’re paid to do it.

On the other hand, if the operation has something to do with radio or the radio environment, hams can take a grant to do that sort of stuff, but the grantor can have no say in transmitter operation and all transmissions must be made so as not to hide their meaning.

None of the treaty regs or rules need to be changed.

I think a paper on this may still be on the IARU web site.

The moment we get something non-amateur in our frequency allocations, we begin to have serious problems keeping the amateur service and its bands.

73, art…..
W4ART  Arlington / Reston  VA

On Aug 9, 2022, at 11:28 AM, Richard AG5M via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:

"...grant requests have to be written for the grantor's desires. And we need to transition to making education and technology the main justifications for Amateur Radio in Part 97.1..."

Pardon my interruption, just reading the mail. But I agree with this having been (retired now) a university professor writing grants. I would suggest staying with education, STEM, as the primary focus to acquire funding. Just my opinion FWIW.

And someday soon I will try my hand at satellite operation.  73, Richard AG5M

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