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JAMES HAMPTON wrote:
Hi gang!

I just had an interesting question pop into my head; one to which I have
no
answer.

I have a couple of friends in British Columbia. Both are licensed hams
and
I've left messages for one of them with his father (the other licensed
ham)
as he is not within repeater contact.

I noticed our agreement with England includes only special event
stations.
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?

No, I'm not trying it, I'm just curious as to what would constitute 3rd
party traffic.


Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

When all else fails, you might read 97.115:

Sec. 97.115 Third party communications.

(a) An amateur station may transmit messages for a third party to:
(1) Any station within the jurisdiction of the United States.
(2) Any station within the jurisdiction of any foreign government
whose administration has made arrangements with the United States to
allow amateur stations to be used for transmitting international
communications on behalf of third parties. No station shall transmit
messages for a third party to any station within the jurisdiction of any
foreign government whose administration has not made such an
arrangement. This prohibition 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.

--
Jim Pennino

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Hello, Jim

Interesting - and it might prove real interesting for a message for a tech
given the message on HF voice from another country ....(!) ... it might get
knotty ... if the station is in the novice portion of the cw band on hf and
running 200 watts or less, then a tech with code might be able to receive
the message .... if not .... hmmm ....

Yet another big gap in regulations ....

I can see there is no clear answer (yet) to my query.



Best regards from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA