Sorry, should've clarified, do I need a special license to rent out my radio fleet? I know you are covered by the system owner if you are the renter, but I'm thinking of this from a perspective of where I am charging other people to use my radios/frequencies for whatever event they want to do.Most places, you are covered under the rental company's license and use their frequencies. Are rental companies going to program radios to use your frequencies? Maybe, maybe not.
Wow, common carrier looks like a lot of money and paperwork. I'll probably skip on the radios for rental for now.I got licensed in the early 80s to rent out time on my commercial mountain top repeaters and I had to get a "common carrier" license. I don't remember the details but I recommended frequency pairs to my local coordinator, told them I intend to lease repeater time and want my customers to operate under my license, and the coordinator took care of everything. For $$ of course.
Sorry, should've clarified, do I need a special license to rent out my radio fleet? I know you are covered by the system owner if you are the renter, but I'm thinking of this from a perspective of where I am charging other people to use my radios/frequencies for whatever event they want to do.
A list of FRNs (includes all the licenses on each FRN) of some of the nationwide radio rental companies is at:Just pull up some licenses of known radio rental outfits.
A list of FRNs (includes all the licenses on each FRN) of some of the nationwide radio rental companies is at:
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I do believe that the Common Carrier stuff is if you are running a repeater.
If you are just going to use the itinerant channels in simplex mode, you won't need that. Looks like you do need to change your station class to MO6, though.
However, your license should reflect your business need, will need to include the correct number of mobile stations and generally be accurate to reflect the usage.
Making sure that those who are renting your radios are aware of the shared nature of itinerant channels would be wise.
And if you haven't rented out your radios before, make sure you grasp the amount of damage they'll endure. They'll get whipped like rented mules and sustain a fair amount of damage. You'll want robust radios for this sort of stuff. Consider that many antennas, chargers, speaker mics, belt clips and spare batteries will get damaged or just downright disappear in this sort of application.
I think you can get a regular part 90 license and state the intent in the eligibility section. Just pull up some licenses of known radio rental outfits. You definitely don't want to be a common carrier as the paperwork and reporting is daunting.
I don't think you can rent radios and allow customers to use your license unless you are a common carrier. Thinking back I remember filling out some initial paperwork on my long term air time rentals but not for some of the temporary users and at one point I stopped reporting the users. I was still able to renew the license and I operated for quite some time leasing repeater air time in So Cal.
I would be curious as to what leads you to that conclusion. Is there an FCC registration database of private carrier licenses? I am seeing a lot of 90.35 a 1 type eligibility when I look at rental companies.Just by doing some research, I think I would need a private/contract carrier designation rather than common carrier. Common carrier is meant more for cell companies that are selling to the general public versus a contract carrier which is a limited number of customers.
I take that back, I honestly have no clue where I found that. Disregard. Common carrier would be what's applicable here.I would be curious as to what leads you to that conclusion. Is there an FCC registration database of private carrier licenses? I am seeing a lot of 90.35 a 1 type eligibility when I look at rental companies.
Same question. would be curious as to what leads you to that conclusion.I take that back, I honestly have no clue where I found that. Disregard. Common carrier would be what's applicable here.
Figured as much but figured I'd ask in case there was no need. I can just go to any coordinator for my band, doesn't have to be necessarily the closest right?Its best to contact a frequency coordinator, tell them what you want to do and they will tell you what you need.
Figured as much but figured I'd ask in case there was no need. I can just go to any coordinator for my band, doesn't have to be necessarily the closest right?