Fixed Station vs Base Station?

[Radioguy7268]

A Fixed Station is one that's been repaired.

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[amaff]

13 hours ago, Radioguy7268 said:

A Fixed Station is one that's been repaired.

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I thought it was one that's been neutered

[WRKC935]

Wow, we doing THIS AGAIN?!?!?!!

Fixed stations are communicating with other fixed stations.  Linking aside.  If you have a repeater at a remote location, and a base station at your house, when you are talking on the REPEATER, that's fixed station operation.  If you go to a simplex channel and talk to a mobile or portable radio, then you are operating fixed BASE.  So ONE radio can operate in BOTH manners depending on how you are communicating.  The other situation is simplex between two base stations.  Both are 'fixed' or not mobile / portable. 

Reason for this is to NOT create unneeded interference on the frequency by operating at a power level above the minimum required to maintain reliable communications.  Repeaters and other base stations have added range due to their elevated antenna systems over a mobile or portable and of course have antenna's with more gain as well. 

This isn't anything new... commercial has had this same regulation for years.  The difference is in part 90 commercial they refer to the radio as a CONTROL STATION.  It's still a 'base radio'.  This is also how you get the maximum antenna height regulations for fixed base operations.