Based on what you have below.... You are asking if an Amateur Radio repeater must have an id'er.
The answer is no, it does not have to have an automated id'er...however, The users when they are using the repeater must include the repeater call (usually a club or trustees call) in their identification every 10 minutes. This is how it use to be done before automated id systems and is still done on many public safety repeaters by the dispatchers that do not have id'ers. Now....in case you are asking about the repeater id'ing yet the user has the decode tone squelch turned on on his radio (which very few hams do), and the repeater is transmitting some type of PL tone when it is in use, but you can not hear the id, then the repeater is doing what is called "stripping the PL on transmit". This is a common practice by commercial and public safety repeaters that have the ability to NOT transmit the PL tone when id;ing so that the users are do not hear it and are not bothered by it. Additionally many systems that have this abilty will reset the id when it is intureputted by a users access and try again after a prest length of time to transmit the full id. Most current and many older commercial repeaters do this. All my Quantars are set for this. Paul Gilbert, KE5ZW On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, n6nmz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone told me that this was discussed already on the group but I > have not been able to locate the thread. There are some repeaters in > our area that are using CTCSS access and have no call sign > indentification. Anyone know if that is compliant with the FCC rules. > Does the operating station, who is in control via their tone, suffice > as the indentification? Thanks, Eric Homa - N6NMZ. > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
