Linux-Hams archive - February 1997: re: Re: Standard for command

re: Re: Standard for command

mlivjdz.sjfrtjnm@ad-tec.co.jp
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 17:51:55 -0500


C=US/A=INTERNET/DDA=ID/owner-linux-hams(a)vger.rutgers.edu Wrote:
|
| Carl Makin typed:
| > Why should we be restricted to that? If I want to call
| myself "Carl" over
| > the air why not? In Australia, as long as I ID by
| "international code"
| > once every 10 minutes it is legal! (This is a recent
| change in the local
| > regs BTW)
| Unless they have finally changed the regs like they said
| they would a few
| years ago, I thought this 10 minute ID rule was for
| everything except packet
| radio, which must send a callsign in each and every
| packet.

The changes to the TLS system saw the stupid packet identification of source
callsign, destigination callsign and station repeating callisgn (if repeated)
removed.

This was styled by the Spectrum Management Agency (SMA) when they set up the
packet regaulations a number of years ago.

The identification has been scaled down to the originating station must
identify in the mode being used or any internationaly reconigised code.

If the old requirements were in place, netrom, routed tcpip and even mail
messages would still be illegal.

|
| But hey, at least we're not stuck to running AX.25 though!
|

We have never been stuck to running ax25, as long as the id requirements are
met.

With the new requirements, identification of your own station every 10 minutes
in an internationally recongised code is all that is required.

| - Craig vk2xlz
|

73 Peter VK3AVE

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