NFCC votes to ask FCC to treat all repeaters as repeaters

The membership of the National Frequency Coordinators' Council has voted to ask the FCC to treat all repeaters as repeaters, regardless of mode or transmission protocol.

The following motion was adopted:

That the NFCC send a letter to the FCC that states that the NFCC believes that any amateur radio station, other than a message forwarding system, that automatically retransmits a signal sent by another amateur radio station on a different frequency while it is being received, regardless of any delays in processing that signal or its format or content, is a repeater station within the meaning of paragraph 97.3(a)(39) of the rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and should be treated as such.

Under the NFCC's proportional voting system, 93 votes were cast in favor of the motion by 19 members, and 54 against by 11 members.

For the Council,
Jay Maynard, K5ZC
President