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No. The ULS is the official document.
Since February 2015 the FCC no longer routinely issues paper licenses, although a paper copy can be obtained by request. The paperless policy was published October 2014:
We deem the electronic version of an authorization stored in ULS or the ASR System as the official Commission document.
Furthermore, ยง97.5 describes ...
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With a few exceptions, broadcasting in amateur frequencies is separately illegal. Transmissions should generally be intended to get a responding transmission, but it's probably a good benchmark that it's music if you play a tune with no expectation to get a response.
Amateur radio is for communication. If it's a series of tones intended to communicate a ...
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The "plain meaning rule" applies. If the law doesn't define a word, the word has its everyday meaning. If an ordinary person would say that what you transmitted is music, then a judge would normally be required to agree. If you want to test the limits and argue before a judge that something isn't music, or that a particular interpretation would be &...
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Does "phone emissions" include digitally encoded audio emissions?
Yes. For example, FreeDV is a phone emission. FreeDV consists of multiple PSK carriers: first symbol G. These carriers transmit a stream of bits: second symbol 1. And it is designed to take a sound at one station and reproduce it at the other station. That is telephony: third symbol ...
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I think that the FCC does not want to allow people to send music over the airwaves, due to the (extremely complicated, arcane, and heavily-legislated) issues around the right to perform music in a non-private setting.
For example, if you were to sing a song written by The Beatles, do you have the right to perform that where anyone else is listening? (Unless ...
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