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In . com writes:

All,

I have a situation, and would like some opinions rather than flames on
how to handle it. My wife teaches at a public school just off the
Easter Arizona Navajo reservation. Lately, a junior school science
teacher is starting up a science club and has asked me to provide for
the amateur radio side of the club and be its control operator.

[...]

What I want to do is provide each kid with a popcorn CW transceiver for
the colorburst frequency (3579 khz), a key, a short random wire, and a
battery. That way they could practice amongst themselves with
myself as occasional net control.

[...]

My question is this: so long as final output to the antenna is within
the requirement of part 15 unlicensed operation, is part 15 unlicensed
operation allowed within a band normally governed under part 97?
Part 15 operation would easily cover a 30 mile radius on 80M.

If no, I'll run the net under part 15 on the edge of the AM band near
160M.

Thanks in advance,

The Eternal Squire

I think this is an excellent, and well-intentioned, idea in principle.
Others here have given good advice about being careful about power
levels. The Technical Information Service (TIS) at the American Radio
Relay League (ARRL) has put together a very comprehensive and
informative web page relating to Part 15. It's particularly helpful in
explaining about how Part 15 fits in with Part 97. It can be found at:

http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/part15.html

Especially note the "Myths" and "Scope" links at the above site.

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73, Paul W. Schleck, K3FU

http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/
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