FCC 97.3(a)(38) Remote control. The use of a control operator who indirectly manipulates the operating adjustments in the station through a control link to achieve compliance with the FCC Rules.

Regarding the distractors, a station operated away from its home location is still being operated locally. When it's being controlled by someone other than the licensee that someone is still the control operator. Automatic control means that the station is controlled automatically -- with no control operator at the control point, as in the case of a repeater.

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Note that automatic control is not the same as remote control. With remote control, the control point (the point from which the station is controlled) is located remotely from the station and controls the station over a control link.

Automatic control is the only form of control of a station that allows operation when the control operator is not at a control point. The most common example of automatic control is a repeater. There is still a control operator, but they have configured the station for Automatic Control and it controls itself without them needing to be present at a control point. This is generally done using special devices or procedures allowing the station to control itself.

FCC 97(a) (6) Automatic control. The use of devices and procedures for control of a station when it is transmitting so that compliance with the FCC Rules is achieved without the control operator being present at a control point.

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There is always a control operator when an amateur radio station is transmitting. With local control, the control operator is physically at the same location as the station and is controlling it from the control point there.

Automatic control is when the control operator uses devices and/or procedures to configure the station so that it can operate without an active control operator. There is still a control operator, but he or she is not present at the control point in all cases during station operation.

A common example of automatic control is a repeater.

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An automatically controlled station may retransmit 3rd party communications only if the emissions are RTTY (radio teletype) or data (such as packet).

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The rule that confuses people on this one is: An automatically controlled station may retransmit 3rd party communications only if the emissions are RTTY (radio teletype) or data (such as packet).

HOWEVER: An automatically controlled station can never originate the third party communications.

The key word here is originate.

This question has been removed from the pool, since it was unclear.

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Except in the case of an automatically controlled station, all Amateur Radio stations must have a control operator at the control point when transmitting.

With a remote control station you might think that this is not true, but in actuality the place from which you remotely control the station is the control point.

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There are several types of control permitted for an Amateur Station. Local control is the simplest and most readily understood. It is simply control of a station directly, at the controls of that station, by a control operator.

Other types of control (for comparison, not for the answer to this question) include Automatic Control (such as a repeater) and Remote Control (such as controlling a station through an auxiliary link or controlling a repeater using a handheld.)

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Memory Trick: If your control link malfunctions, it cannot transmit more than 3 minutes. “3 strikes and you’re out!”

Real Answer: FCC 97.213(b)) Provisions are incorporated to limit transmission by the station to a period of no more than 3 minutes in the event of malfunction in the control link.

3M m on its side looks like the number 3. malfunction, minutes, m rotated

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A repeater may receive and retransmit only on the 10 m and shorter wavelength frequency bands except the following segments.

• 28.0–29.5 MHz
• 50.0–51.0 MHz
• 144.0–144.5 MHz
• 145.5–146.0 MHz
• 222.00–222.15 MHz
• 431.0–433.0 MHz
• 435.0–438.0 MHz

29.500 MHz - 29.700 is the only answer that is Directly below 30MHz

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FCC 97.113(f) No amateur station, except an auxiliary, repeater, or space station, may automatically retransmit the radio signals of other amateur station.

An easy way to remember this is to focus on "automatically retransmit signals", or ARS; which happens to follow the order for (A)uxiliary, (R)epeater, or (S)pace stations.

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