[CW] FCC degrades Radio Officers

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Gene,

The Queen Mary is not a ship - is not registered in any country, is not
subject to any marine inspection, has no crew, and  has no functioning
commercial radio equipment.  A license search for a FCC license yeilds no
commercial telegraph license.  It can't float and is on land.

The Radio Station in the Queen Mary Hotel has been moved, twice.  According
to what I've been told - there is no functioning commercial radio equipment,
nor a license to use it.

It is a hotel, not a ship.

73

David Ring


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb@deltasoft.com>
To: "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>
Cc: <cw@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] FCC degrades Radio Officers

> I guess the first question to ask is whether or not the FCC considers the
> QM to be a ship.  It certainly meets the physical definition of the word,
> but I don't know what the FCC would class it as.
>