jimyhatt
Member
Greetings all,
First, please move this if this isn't the appropriate spot for this question!
I recently started a new job with a company that rents radios for a few months during their busy time in the summer. I started asking around about frequencies and tones, and no one seemed to know the answer. I was able to pull the model and cross reference the operating band (UHF) no real surprise there. I assumed they were operating on one of the UHF itinerant frequencies. I scanned those to no real avail. I finally borrows a friends frequency counter and pulled the frequencies from the radio. All simplex operations so no real big deal there. Come to find out that they are 460.2875, 461.2875, 462.2875, 464.2875 and 466.2875. Interesting full on business pool frequencies... My question is about FCC licensing. I am assuming that as "renters" of the system we would be "covered" under their FCC license; and this is what they told me when I called them up and asked them. What I didn't get from them was their actual FCC call sign for the license we were operating under. Nor, when I search the FCC ULS can I find anything in our area or the area of the company (other side of the country) that is renting the radios that would suggest a valid FCC license.
So:
1. Does the FCC license flow down to the "renter" in a situation like this?
2. What the liability /legality to our organization we are using a radio that is not properly licensed?
3. I have a sneaking suspicion that the operation of these radios probably isn't 100% legal.
4. Does the FCC issue nation wide part 90 frequencies that ARE NOT itinerant?
Thanks!
First, please move this if this isn't the appropriate spot for this question!
I recently started a new job with a company that rents radios for a few months during their busy time in the summer. I started asking around about frequencies and tones, and no one seemed to know the answer. I was able to pull the model and cross reference the operating band (UHF) no real surprise there. I assumed they were operating on one of the UHF itinerant frequencies. I scanned those to no real avail. I finally borrows a friends frequency counter and pulled the frequencies from the radio. All simplex operations so no real big deal there. Come to find out that they are 460.2875, 461.2875, 462.2875, 464.2875 and 466.2875. Interesting full on business pool frequencies... My question is about FCC licensing. I am assuming that as "renters" of the system we would be "covered" under their FCC license; and this is what they told me when I called them up and asked them. What I didn't get from them was their actual FCC call sign for the license we were operating under. Nor, when I search the FCC ULS can I find anything in our area or the area of the company (other side of the country) that is renting the radios that would suggest a valid FCC license.
So:
1. Does the FCC license flow down to the "renter" in a situation like this?
2. What the liability /legality to our organization we are using a radio that is not properly licensed?
3. I have a sneaking suspicion that the operation of these radios probably isn't 100% legal.
4. Does the FCC issue nation wide part 90 frequencies that ARE NOT itinerant?
Thanks!