[QCWA] Is APRS legal? QCWA President says NO!

[Gene Pentecost]

At 04:46 PM 5/6/05, you wrote:
>FCC Rule 97.199c from a copy of ARRL FCC Rule Book follows:
>(c) An indicator may be included with the call sign. It must be separated
>from the call sign by the slant mark or by any suitable word that denotes
>the slant mark. if the indicator is self assigned, it must be included after
>the call sign and must not conflict with any other indicator specified by
>FCC Rules or by any prefix assigned to any other country.
>
>73 de Joe N1JS Life member of QCWA

Joe-

You are correct.  That is the same paragraph quoted by ARRL's Hennessee in 
support of its legality and Johnston in support of its illegality. So take 
your choice!

The real issue here is the president's lack of response to an issue that 
was resolved over twenty years ago.

73

Gene W4IMT