On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Robin Gilks wrote:
> Have looked long and hard through BR68 I can't find ANYTHING that
> even mentions AX25 never mind that a callsign MUST be used as
> a part of the protocol.
>
> Do not confuse station identification (necessary by MORSE in the UK)
> with the particular digital communications method (protocol).
>
My explanation: due the fact that IEEE 802 adresses aren't for free
(you have to pay the right to register a block of address to IEEE)
and if you use them you ave to get them from somenone, and that
calligns are assigned uniquely from PTT, made sense to use them as a
protocol identifier. That's different from station id, that could be
transmitted indipendently from the data of the communication (and
this has also the QTT abbreviation, if remember correctly).
Anyvay SV nodes, respond both to regular call (ie. IW1CFL) and
the alias (ie. TORINO). On connection they send QTH, power, callign,
overclocking and whatevewr you want to id the station.
This seems to me a non-issue.
73
Mike
IW1CFL
