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It may be a violation if it involved a business transaction that was not related to ham radio equipment. Buying, selling and trading equipment related to ham
by kayfox 7y ago
It may be a violation if it involved a business transaction that was not related to ham radio equipment. Buying, selling and trading equipment related to ham radio is the only exception to the rule against business transactions that I am aware of.
- Stratoscope 7y agoThe exception you're referring to is this one in Part 97.113 (3), which is part of a list of prohibited communications: (3) Communications in which the station licensee or control operator has a pecuniary interest, including communications on behalf of an employer. Amateur operators may, however, notify other amateur operators of the availability for sale or trade of apparatus normally used in an amateur station, provided that such activity is not conducted on a regular basis. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2002-title47-vol5/pdf/CFR-2002-title47-vol5-sec97-113.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2002-title47-vol5/pd... It appears that the exception is limitied to notifying other amateurs of equipment for sale or trade, not making the actual payment over the air. For example, if I got a one-time virtual credit card number and read it over the air to another amateur to pay for equipment, I don't believe that would fall under this exception, so it would be prohibited.
- jimktrains2 7y agoEspecially if it was a low value transaction or a transaction between two accounts held by the same person, they could argue it falls under experimentation, I guess?
- WA9ACE 7y agoAny form of encryption on amateur radio frequencies is prohibited under FCC Rules Part §97.113 Prohibited transmissions Section 4 http://www.arrl.org/part-97-text http://www.arrl.org/part-97-text. This makes things like TCP/IP over HAM frequencies legal (as seen here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet) but not SSL traffic. No business transaction required.