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

[Paul L Schmidt]

OK, so what's the issue?  The AX.25 spec defines exactly where the callsign
goes, and defines exactly where the bit locations for the SSID go.  For
a defined protocol, the governing spec defines the "words" used, and
defines things precisely enough to tell how to separate the 6 characters
of callsign from the 1 character of SSID information.

Paul / K9PS

Joe Santangelo 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
>