On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:31:37 +0000 (UTC), wrote:

Should I have two friends in England and both were amateur radio operators,
could I legally ask for one to pass a message to the other to meet on a
particular repeater? This would *not* be with a special event station.
Would passing traffic through a ham to another ham be considered 3rd party?

This prohibition [against passing third-party traffic with a
statsion whose Licensing Administration does not have an a
third-party traffic agreement with the US] does not apply to a
message for any third party who is eligible to be a control
operator of the station.

Notice the last sentence.

That would make it OK if the message was from the UK ham through
a US ham to another US hams, because FCC rules are applicable
only to stations authorized by the FCC by specific or blanket
license.

I really don't know if in the UK, a similar permission exists
and whether the "second" operator can be designated as a control
operator of the "first" ham's station. Some Administrations
allow this, others do not.

Perhaps Alun (who holds a UK licence) can enlighten us.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane