On Nov 8, 2007, at 7:39 PM, John Barrett wrote: > besides the fact that a person using a repeater is still bound to > the 10 minute ID rule, so some of the input must be mixed to the > output or the user would never be heard to ID on the output while > the patch was in operation.
Another fun debate topic: I'm required to ID my transmitter. I'm NOT required to be heard through the repeater's output, however. Just from a legal point of view. :-) Example: If a repeater requires CTCSS access, and I unkey every 10 minutes, turn off my CTCSS encoder and ID, and then turn it back on and start talking again... no one listening to the output will think I ever ID'ed properly -- but it's 100% legal. (In fact many repeater linking systems take advantage of this particular example to suppress having multiple ID's showing up on all the linked repeater outputs.) Of course, if such a practice by a user were to trouble a repeater owner/operator, the FCC almost always sides on the side of the repeater trustee if a trustee has published additional rules for using their system and asked any Amateur not complying with those rules, not to use the system. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
