There was a ham with a French callsign running a BBS in Texas. He just
used his F callsign for connecting and beaconed an I.D. with the w5/, as
I recall. This may have been confusing to some, but is legal in the
U.S., possibly elsewhere.
Bob
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 09:25:54AM +0100, richard bown wrote:
> Hi all, as I will be working in Germany for the next year, no that
> doesn't mean you wont hear from me !,
> I've come across a problem common to linux node , jnos, tnos and fbb
> and probally a few more as well.
> All of the above check for valid callsigns , ie 6 characters and a
> number in it somewhere.
> now how about the following dc/g8jvm a perfectly valid callsign
> but the "/" is not accepted or any other delimiter.
> I know that Tomi is aware of this problem, but is f6fbb ???
> I can see absolute chaos being caused if I can only log on to a fbb bbs
> with my own call, as white pages reads the r lines.
>
> This affect ip as well as when an arp request is sent it will receive an
> invalid call , but as linux node, tnos & jnos wont accept the ax25
> mycall over 6 chars , I guess it wont get any further.
> I know tnos gets a lot of slagging but its the only thing so far that
> allows a user with a cept style call to log in to a bbs.
>
> So it looks like the only way around this is to apply to the German PTT
> for a true reciprocal licence , and you know how pedantic the German s
> can be !.
> Or is it a case of so what we'll just wait til some country uses 7 char
> callsigns, well that may not be too far off.
>
> An help with this one would be very appreciated , especially from anyone
> in the Munich area who could help with a reciprocal call.
> TIA
> 73 g8jvm--
> richard bown
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