Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
Rick You keep lumping automatic together with unattended As you may know the ProrNet site says to NEVER leave your station untended as well as the WL2K site.

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread Roger J. Buffington
John Becker, WØJAB wrote: Rick You keep lumping automatic together with unattended As you may know the ProrNet site says to NEVER leave your station untended as well as the WL2K site. A station transmitter without a homo sapiens located at a receiver *at the location of the receiver*

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread John Becker, WØJAB
It is one thing to be automatic and attended and another to be automatic and unattended . The rules say you can't be unattended At 11:19 AM 1/5/2008, you wrote: A station transmitter without a homo sapiens located at a receiver *at the location of the receiver* is unattended.

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread Rick
Sorry if you misunderstood that. I am not sure where you saw me make such a claim and you might want to point me to such a statement. My point frequently has been that unattended operation is not permitted in the U.S. and Riley Hollingsworth has stated this publicly. What I have said is that

RE: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread Dave AA6YQ
remotely, then the operation is permissable. 73, Dave, AA6YQ -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Chomley Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:15 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread Rick
John, The FCC Part 97 has no such reference. Could you please explain why you are making such as statement? 73, Rick, KV9U John Becker, WØJAB wrote: It is one thing to be automatic and attended and another to be automatic and unattended . The rules say you can't be

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-05 Thread Jack Chomley
At 07:47 AM 1/6/2008, you wrote: Right here - As I have pointed out, a number of ham activities that are claimed to be for the purposes of propagation, especially PropNet and the HFLinkNet appear to be illegal operations if they are being run automatically. It is stretching the rules rather

[digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-04 Thread Russell Blair
My Question, is a beacon a beacon if is maned, or does it have to be unmaned to be a beacon. For me my beacon has not be on the air without being here at the PC. So do we scrip the testing or find a spot up on 10m. Russell NC5O = IN GOD WE TRUST ! = Russell

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-04 Thread Jack Chomley
At 10:56 AM 1/5/2008, you wrote: My Question, is a beacon a beacon if is maned, or does it have to be unmaned to be a beacon. For me my beacon has not be on the air without being here at the PC. So do we scrip the testing or find a spot up on 10m. Russell NC5O = IN GOD WE TRUST

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew O'Brien
I am just talking about sending the FLARQ beacon while in the shack. On Jan 4, 2008 11:09 PM, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FCC is pretty clear on the definition of a beacon. 97.3 Definitions/ (9) Beacon/. An amateur station transmitting communications for the purposes of

Re: [digitalradio] Beacon's ?

2008-01-04 Thread Rick
The FCC is pretty clear on the definition of a beacon. 97.3 Definitions/ (9) Beacon/. An amateur station transmitting communications for the purposes of observation of propagation and reception or other related experimental activities. Here are the frequency bands that they may be operated