Is frequency coordination required?
• No. Participation in a frequency coordination program is strictly voluntary. No Amateur Radio frequency coordinator has any “authority” to tell a repeater sponsor what he can, or cannot do. However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the amateur community has recognized that participation in a frequency coordination program by repeater trustees is in the best interests of all Amateurs. Therefore, FCC rules (Part 97.205c) have been adopted; §97.205 Repeater station. (c) Where the transmissions of a repeater cause harmful interference to another repeater, the two station licensees are equally and fully responsible for resolving the interference unless the operation of one station is recommended by a frequency coordinator and the operation of the other station is not. In that case, the licensee of the noncoordinated repeater has primary responsibility to resolve the interference. • Essentially, this states that the trustee of an uncoordinated repeater bears the primary resp
No. Participation in a frequency coordination program is strictly voluntary. No Amateur Radio frequency coordinator has any “authority” to tell a repeater sponsor what he can, or cannot, do. However, the FCC has recognized that participation in a frequency coordination program by repeater sponsors is in the best interests of all Amateurs. Therefore, FCC rules have been adopted which state that the sponsor of an un-coordinated repeater bears the primary responsibility for curing any interference between his repeater and another repeater which is coordinated. Likewise, the sponsor of an un-coordinated machine cannot expect much help from his area FC.
No. Participation in a frequency coordination program is strictly voluntary. No Amateur Radio frequency coordinator has any “authority” to tell a repeater sponsor what he can, or cannot, do. However, the FCC has recognized that participation in a frequency coordination program by repeater sponsors is in the best interests of all Amateurs. Therefore, FCC rules have been adopted which state that the sponsor of an un-coordinated repeater bears the primary responsibility for curing any interference between his repeater and another repeater which is coordinated. Likewise, the sponsor of an un-coordinated machine cannot expect much help from his area FC. Click here to go back to the main page or to the beginning of this page.
No. Participation in a frequency coordination program is strictly voluntary. No Amateur Radio frequency coordinator has any “authority” to tell a repeater sponsor what he can, or cannot do. However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the amateur community has recognized that participation in a frequency coordination program by repeater sponsors is in the best interests of all Amateurs. Therefore, FCC rules (Part 97.205c) have been adopted which state that the sponsor of an uncoordinated repeater bears the primary responsibility for curing any interference between his repeater and another repeater which is coordinated. Likewise, the sponsor of an uncoordinated machine cannot expect much help from his area frequency coordinator.
