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

[Gene Pentecost]

At 05:01 PM 5/7/05, you wrote:
>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

Paul-

Of course, you are correct.  But your comment should be directed to 
President Johnston.  He is the one who says it is not legal.  And, of 
course, he will reply that AX.25 is not part of FCC rules.  But he probably 
won't reply at all.  And THAT is the issue.

73

Gene