Chris, OK - switching to serious mode for now.
Using the "one transmission to one radio" argument doesn't float... What about a group discussion or ragchew on the repeater (or any other frequency/mode, for that matter?? During those, you are technically transmitting your message to more than one receiving station simultaneously. Now I know we're going WAY off topic with this, but here's a question to ponder... What is the difference between sending paging tones off the local repeater to a group of hams, and sending a QSTR message to that same group of hams? The paging method uses DTMP of single-frequency tone(s), whereas the QST message uses "variable frequency" voice. I see no difference as long as the transmission is destined for the use of a group of licensed amateurs. Using the logic of above, then the QST transmission of NewsLine becomes illegal. (And I'd hate to have to count all the net control stations who do >that< on a weekly basis.) But then again, I'm not a lawyer, or an FCC regulator... 73 de Mark - N9WYS -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Christopher Hodgdon Now, this makes a little more sense. As you show here, if you are using say a DTMF or Tone Page to activate only one radio or pager at a single time is not considered paging, but if you are activating more than 1 pager, then that is considered broadcasting, correct. One problem is that here locally, several ARES/RACES groups in a few cities and counties, have their repeaters setup to set out a tone alert and DTMF code that opens up pagers setup for the tones and radios setup for the DTMF code to activate SkyWarn nets and more. Some say that their paging cycle takes up to 2 minutes to complete from start to finish, so I don't know if the system sends the tone page to each member one at a time or not. But all of them talk about sending out the tones ot DTMF tones to open the radios and pagers of their members. I would consider this paging "broadcasting" myself, though it might no be when the rules and regs are applied. But my question is still, doesn't the FCC also consider the one way transmission from, again as an example, W1AW that are training codes, announcements, bullitens, etc. to also be a "broadcast" transmission, since it is intened for all amateurs that receive it? That is one way I am confused about broadcasting, as it applies to the rules. --- In [email protected], "n9wys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey - don't wrap me up in this, simply because I **am** "one To-many"... > > 73 de Mark TOMANY - N9WYS > Sorry - couldn't resist a bit of weird humor... hi hi >
