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On 2005-02-24 said:
Larry W4CSC wrote:
I'd bet you that if you were to send 3rd party traffic to someone
on PSK31 buried in the noise on 14.070's PSK31 band, noone would
ever find it or say anything, especially if you were at sea.
I'll bet if you sent your email traffic to a US Licensed ham
station, and he forwarded it to Norway via Internet, that it
wouldn't violate the Third Party Traffic Proabition.
IF you're in international waters you're doubly covered. Have known
of hams in the U.S. who didn't have third party with India and such
places to send their third party through stations located in british
possessions where they did and let them "originate" the traffic.

However in international waters as far as I can tell none of the rules
apply. example: Am always telling stations in British possessions
who are U.S. licensed hams such as those located in the BAhamas to get
into international waters then will be glad to run the patc h for
them. However until the recent round of storms last summer we had no
third party with BAhamas and quite a few other islands over that way.
IN fact we were running quite a bit of traffic out of there on the
SAlvation army net after the hurricanes last summer and I mentioned it
to net leadership. SEems our government arranged for a lifting of
that restriction for the duration of the emergency.
HOwever that hadn't yet happened and I noted quite a few stations
doing it anyway and wanted to make sure that they knew where they
stood on legal issues. AS net control for the Satern net I advised a
couple of stations who were running such traffic that they might be
stepping off the legal cliff but move it off frequency and I didn't
see hear or know a thing.

Richard Webb, amateur radio callsign nf5b
active on the Maritime Mobile service network, 14.300 mhz
REplace anything before the @ symbol with elspider for real email

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