[BC] Remote Control Access via Internet

[Bailey, Scott]

Question to the brain trust:

 

I've read over the rules of unattended operation, and I have a question.
Does a station have to have a dial up phone line installed at the
transmitter for remote control or can a station control it transmitter
by internet access only, and do away with the dial up phone line?

 

My thoughts were, and a discussion with another engineer was, the last
update of the remote control rules was around 1995, almost 12 years ago,
before we had wide open internet access.  My studio is with the
transmitter, and I can access my studio automation with my pocket pc,
via Verizon Broadband Wireless, or even Wi-fi. My studio automation can
lower and raise power on my transmitter, and turn it off. I can access
my automation system via logmein.com at home and control the transmitter
as well.

 

What are the thoughts you guys have on this subject?  Do we really have
to have a "dedicated" phone line at the transmitter, if I'm using that
line for DSL service and my pc controls the transmitter, and I have
constant access to it?

 

Scott