RE: Stop Your Whining Already! Re: [amsat-bb] Satellite FIeldDay!

[Tony Langdon <tlangdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I always thought that a fixed station was a station that was 
> situated at
> the address that appears on the FCC license.  I was also thinking that
> if equipment is taken off the property of the licensee (regardless of
> what the equipment happens to be) and sets up said equipment
> elsewhere...he no longer fits the fixed station category.  He can be
> portable, mobile, maritime mobile, aeronautical mobile, whatever...but
> he is no longer a fixed station.

Well, that's true on this side of the world.  If I took all the gear to a
mate's place and set it up, I would be technically "portable".  However, for
our field day contests down here, the definition of "portable" includes no
mains power and no permanently installed antennas.  Still, just by adding a
generator and a mast on a trailer, I'd fit the definition of "portable",
even if all the gear was inside someone else's permanent residence.

I'd imagine it's much the same in the US.
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