According to FCC Part 97.5(b)(2):
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/
"The trustee must be a person who holds an Amateur Extra, Advanced,
General, Technician Plus, or Technician operator license grant."
However, a regulatory complication occurs if the trustee has less than
an Amateur Extra class operator's license. Specifically, if the control
operator holds an operator license class higher than the trustee's, and
wishes to operate the club station at privileges higher than the
trustee's, he must concatenate his callsign to the end of the club
callsign (e.g., K0AIR/K3FU). This is a bit messy and distractive,
particularly for historical callsigns like ours, especially when used
during special operating events.
If the trustee is an Amateur Extra, then the control operator need only
worry about his own operator license class. Since he would never exceed
the privileges of an Amateur Extra trustee, no auxiliary identification
would be required.
This is why an Amateur Extra class trustee is preferred for club station
licenses. We could probably get by with an Advanced, even General,
class trustee for one of the station licenses, as I don't recall an
operating event where we have exceed General-class privileges. The more
important consideration would seem to be whether a person is sincerely
interested in, and able to, fulfill the obligations of trustee over the
term of the station license.
73, Paul, K3FU
> What level of license is required to be a trustee?
> Wayne KE6DZD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sacmarc@oasis.novia.net [mailto:owner-sacmarc@oasis.novia.net]
> On Behalf Of J A Sheffield
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:21 PM
> To: n0rg@cox.net; sacmarc@sacmarc.org
> Subject: Re: Meeting that wasn't
>
>
> I would be willing to become trustee for K0GRL. I'll also take K0AIR if no
> one else wants it.
>
> I think it's important to retain these call signs.
>
> 73 de John, N4OWG
>
> PS: I never received notification of either SACMARC meeting.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy Gertig" <n0rg@cox.net>
> To: <sacmarc@sacmarc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:33 PM
> Subject: Meeting that wasn't
>
>
> > Hi all,
> > I sent out an invitation to a 1st and 2nd quarter SACMARC general
> > membership
> > meeting for last Friday (one of my rare ones off) using Outlook 2003
> > calendar function. From feedback I've gotten from another organization
> > and
> > KB0OUO,the request wasn't handled well at all by the e-mail system. Also,
>
> > I
> > made the "sin" of forgetting it was FIELD DAY weekend. However, I got to
> > talk to KB0QQK whom I haven't seen in a while. Paul, K3FU, reminded me of
> > the upcoming renewals of K0AIR and K0GRL next year, Feb and May 007
> > respectively. He would like to find a willing trustee to take over the
> > call
> > sign K0AIR and I would entertain the request also for K0GRL. As Paul so
> > eloquently put it: "Rotating trustees like these also emphasizes that the
> > club licenses are a club resource, and not the extended shadow of one
> > person. This may be an important point for the FCC when considering
> > whether
> > we are a legitimate club, or are just "banking" or "hoarding" special
> > callsigns. We also have a wider choice of Extra-class licensees to choose
> > from than we did in 1997." So if your highly motivated, have some spare
> > time, want to bring a fresh perspective to the club and are an extra-class
> > operator, think about taking on one of these. Take care and 73s till we
> > meet again. /Roy n0rg
> >
>
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