[Elecraft] Any Remote Ham Users Out there

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

You have a couple of options here in the USA: You can sign using the call
sign of the owner whose station you are visiting or you can sign using your
own call sign. 

Note that if you are using the owner's call sign, he/she is still the
"control operator" responsible for your actions. Also, you must operate
within the restrictions of his class of license. 

Similarly, if you have a class of license that does not permit operation on
the mode or frequency in use, you are simply an unlicensed visitor. The
control operator must operate the transmitter and identify the station with
his/her call sign. 

In that situation, there's nothing wrong with identifying yourself as a Ham
and even giving your call sign during a transmission, but the call sign
identifying the station must be that of the control operator licensee. 

Back in ancient times when the FCC assumed we were operating only from the
address on our license unless we signed "portable", that's how you'd
identify yourself if operating someone else's equipment away from your
station address. Many Hams still do that today. The FCC is fine with such
appendages to the official call provided they don't confuse the station call
sign with anyone else.

Similarly, in ancient times if we visited another Ham we were obliged to
sign their log if we operated the station. That stopped when the regulations
ended the requirement for log books. 

We've come a long way from the days when we had to write a letter to the
local FCC engineer in charge asking for written permission any time we
wanted to operate away from the address shown on our license, Hi! 

73, Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
On 12/15/2013 10:02 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:
> How does one sign their station when using RemoteHamRadio services?  If I
visit a friend and use his station, I would sign with his call.  If I have
my own personal remote station out on a farm then I sign with my call.  But,
a shared station -- which way applies?
>
> I think I am a little ignorant of the rules in this particular example.
>
> 73, phil, K7PEH
>