Perfectly legal so long as the other station is in an area administered by the FCC. However, if the station is foreign then you need to check the list of countries with which the United States has 3rd part agreements. The list of countries with 3rd party agreements can be found at the following URL. Also, you have to identify the foreign station, by call sign. This per 47 CFR Part 97 Section 97.115(d)
§97.115 Third party communications.
(d) At the end of an exchange of international third party communications, the station must also transmit in the station identification procedure the call sign of the station with which a third party message was exchanged.
Otherwise such operation is perfectly legal. In fact, the 3rd party can activate the PTT so long as you are present and can stop the transmission if necessary. Glen, K9STH Website: https://k9sth.net
On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 01:49:34 PM CDT, k6vug--- via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Greetings, Sometimes I have kids and would-be-hams watching me wide-eyed work the FM sats and I wished I could get some of them on the pass too.
So the question is, is it legal to allow them do it with me as the control operator handling the PTT ? on a not-so-busy pass, of course !
Thanks and 73, Umesh, k6vug
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