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Can anybody explain to me how he can legally use amateur radio bands to communicate with this drone? He is a licensed ham, but the device is neither a beacon nor a repeater (and both would need a callsign, at least where I live).


FCC 97.215 [0] makes it legal for a ham to transmit up to 1W in any band they're licensed for for the purpose of model aircraft control, without any callsign identification being necessary.

0: http://www.arrl.org/part-97-amateur-radio


It is legal to control model aircraft with ham radio if you have a ham license.

Forget which part of the law says that, but it's one of the things you learn about when studying for that test.




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