On Jun 10, 2009, at 9:20 PM, George Henry wrote: > A repeater is an amateur STATION. Therefore, the only amateur > STATIONS that > can legally ID a repeater are the repeater itself, or the repeater > licensee. > So while you could legally ID for your own repeater, there is > nothing in the > wording of 97.119 that can be construed to allow any amateur station > to > transmit station identification for any OTHER amateur station. > Fair enough George, good info. I can think of at least three ways around it, the easiest way around it is to make everyone authorized to use a repeater a co-owner. GRIN...
The original topic was whether or not the callsign ID's inside the D- STAR data protocol are necessary/required, and I still say "no" on that one. Voice is fine. My side point was that a repeater doesn't even have to have an automated ID. Lawyers will argue the wording into something so twisted that they'll have jobs forever, since that's what they're paid to do... fiscal incentives are often root-causes to all sorts of things. No one who has a transmitter that's ID'ed in any method with a legal callsign is ever going to have to worry about the above corner-case. It was just a wild example, attempting to point out the obvious... voice or data ID -- doesn't matter which... only one is required. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [email protected]
