That would be an interesting case. Does any group of people have the right to demand use of YOUR license and YOUR equipment? Remember - these are not public transmitters - they are private transmitters owned by you and the license is granted to you. As such, the FCC is on record as confirming that you can deny anyone use of your equipment and your license for ANY reason. Closed repeaters ARE legal.
Can someone of some race (pick any - it doesn't matter which) come up and demand that you let them use your car? I don't see how that could hold up in any court. It's exactly the same thing - forced use of your property. Now, if they wanted to put up their own repeater and you tried to deny them that right, that is a completely different story. Joe M. STeve Andre' wrote: > No Paul, a blanket statement like that is wrong. The owner > of a repeater was wide latitude, but not complete. > > Try banning people of a certain race from a repeater, and > see what happens. The owner of the repeater is not going > to do well. > > --STeve Andre' > wb8wsf en82 > > On Monday 11 August 2008 13:04:43 Paul Dumdie wrote: >> The gentleman who says that you will end up >> on the wrong side of a lawsuit is just plain wrong. >> The repeater trustee may limit access by licensed >> amateurs to a repeater for any reason - any at all AND >> the is no recourse by the excluded amateur. Since the >> FRRL Aurora IL has families with children and minors >> who are amateurs we exclude all sex offenders from >> our membership. >> >> Also -we hold meetings in public places known under >> Illinois law as "safe zones" from which sex offenders >> are excluded; they cannot be full voting members. >> >> Again, the gentleman who mentioned lawsuits is >> completely blowing smoke - the banned amateur excluded >> from repeater access has no legal standing - period - >> end of story >> >> Paul R. Dumdie Jr. "73" >> W9DWP/R IRLP-NODE-4455 >> 443.025/2A 145.270/1B/1Z/NAC-293 >> ARC-Radio-8 KCARES >> HERD546 EX WB9QWZ >> WQGG738 AAR5CU/T > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
