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Thanks! Digging through the jargon and definitions it is starting to make more sense to me now... Remote Control... Operate... Network Connection... So when the FCC says: "You cannot directly interconnect a GMRS station with the telephone network or any other network for the purpose of carrying GMRS communications, but these networks can be used for remote control of repeater stations." It is pertaining to only to radio-to-telephone communication, namely using a radio to dial a phone number. Thanks everyone! I love the idea of a network of connected GMRS repeaters, but that statement on the FCC site of "You cannot directly interconnect a GMRS station with the telephone network or any other network for the purpose of carrying GMRS communications, but these networks can be used for remote control of repeater stations" had me stumbling for a bit.

However... "Remote Control" is a broad term covering many things, not just GMRS communications. And the FCC explicitly states that connecting a repeater to a network for the purpose of carrying GMRS communications is not allowed.

Yeah, I've seen the various FCC letters / emails from 2017. But when I look at the current FCC site and the current FCC rules I'm unable to find anything supporting / allowing the linking / networking of repeaters...what I do find is quite the opposite. So, obviously, making telephone calls via repeater is not allowed. But as the rules are currently written, the only thing that is allowed to be done via network is remote control. I've looked through the entire Part 95, did keyword searches for network, link, repeater, interconnect just to see if I missed anything. So...what am I missing? At the moment, the statement on the FCC website and the FCC Part 95 rules appear to be in harmony, unless there is something in the rules I'm missing.

I'm quite new to all of this, and just trying to learn & understand. It's this statement on the FCC website that has me questioning "linking" for anything other than remote control of the repeater...