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

[Joe Santangelo]

Hi Gene:
Thanks for your reply.
Question is ?
Resolved by who?
Is there an FCC verification?
If so, why hasn't FCC Rule 97.199c been modified? Or an addition or other
modification to the FCC rules.

I don't understand the problem! Is there one?
Has any US Amateur been questioned or notified o any violation of their
operating practice?  Does it make any difference?

73 de Joe N1JS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Pentecost" <gene.pentecost at ieee.org>
To: "Discussion of QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Is APRS legal? QCWA President says NO!


> 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
>
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