[GreenKeys] Tape usage

[Wa3frp]

The requirement for Amateur Radio operators in the United States to identify their station callsign at the beginning and the end of each digital transmission and at ten minute intervals using International Morse Code was lifted by the FCC on June 15, 1983.

But using RTTY for station ID during the transmission of a long RTTY Art picture is a real pain in the neck, especially since the distant station had to put the TTY into standby.  Most just stayed with narrow shift Morse - maybe 50 or 60 Hz shift.  That would not disturb a TTY receiving at 170 Hz.

>But the FCC had this annoying little regulation about identifying every 10 minutes with your call sign. So, every 10 minutes you had to stop the tape, send you ID via Morse code, then start the tape again. Doesn't this rule still exist? Perhaps the CW ID requirement has been lifted, but isn't there still a RTTY ID required every 10 and at the end like phone?

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