[arm-allstar] timed link disconnect from receiving node

[Lawrence Roney]

Hopefully, without turning this into a discussion on FCC rules...

After doing research and getting opinions from others on implementing a timed disconnect for a WX rebroadcasting node, it appears that retransmission of NOAA weather radio is an allowed exception in Part § 97.113(c) as long as the original transmission 1) is intended for use by the general public, 2) originated from United States Government stations, and 3) is only conducted occasionally as an incident of normal amateur radio communications.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.113 

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.  I will pass them along to the owner of the WX node.

Lawrence - N6YFN

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On Fri, 17 May 2019 10:45:07 -0400 (EDT) David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote: 


I know re-transmitting NOAA has been a previously debated grey area of the part 97 rules.  I made some noise about this several years ago and found the FCC interpretation at that point was that re-transmitting NOAA was not allowed.

I recommend that anyone considering NOAA re-transmission should follow up and get an expert opinion from council---such as from the ARRL general council.....


73, David KB4FXC

On Thu, 16 May 2019, "Lawrence Roney via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> We have a club member who was looking to do the same thing with their
"weather" node.  The node's audio input comes from a receiver that's tuned to the regional NOAA weather broadcast loop.  As a safeguard, they asked me if there was a way to force disconnect an incoming call after 3 minutes, which is enough time to hear the loop broadcast in its entirety, but then drop the link so it could not inadvertently tie up a repeater.
> 
> Thanks Doug,
> 
> Lawrence - N6YFN
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