wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]

Thu Oct 9 14:11:34 UTC 2014

> On Oct 9, 2014, at 03:57, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon at cox.net> wrote:
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> On 10/9/2014 02:40, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>>> What where the laws and practices in the Olde Days of over-the-air
>>> TV when somebody in a small town installed a translator to repeat
>>> Big-Cities-TV-Station into a small town?
>> 
>> The translator had to be operated by a holder of an FCC license for
>> that translator.
>> 
>> Operator and Owner are not necessarily linked in any way shape or
>> form, though they usually were one and the same.
> 
> Was the translator operator obligated to carry everything from the source station, or could they turn the translator off if they wanted to?

I honestly don't know what the license terms were. I am also not aware of any circumstances where that issue was at all likely to come up. 

Owen

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