What authority does the repeater council have ?
A. The repeater council has no authority in law. It operates as an organization established and recognized by the general amateur radio community for the purpose of managing the allocation of fixed frequencies in the amateur radio spectrum above 29 MHz, for the benefit of all radio amateurs. The repeater council has no authority to demand that radio amateurs conform to its policies or to coordinate frequencies through it. Individual radio amateurs and their other organizations cooperate with the repeater council because this approach to the use of these bands for fixed frequency installations has proven to be a workable and effective method, for everyone’s benefit.
