[OZAPRS] Foundation Calls reminder

[Ray Wells]

Mr Richard Sawday wrote:

>>When it comes to technology the local body was recto-cranially inverted
>>for ages, but they're slowly coming into the 21st century (giving the 20th
>>a miss along the way).
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>Ha ha ha  well said.
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>Why not just block callsigns with > 6 characters.
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What will that do to valid callsign-ssid?

The real answer is to convince offenders that they have licence 
conditions with which they are legally bound to comply. If the polite 
approach doesn't work, go to a higher authority.

We shouldn't have to block offenders, we pay a licence fee to an 
authority with that power.

Ray vk2tv

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave at horsfall.org>
>To: "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
>Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 3:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Foundation Calls reminder
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>>On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Geoff wrote:
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>>>Just another friendly reminder that Foundation license holders (VKxFxxx)
>>>are NOT permitted to use APRS under their license conditions.
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>>OK, I'm a programmer as opposed to an APRS user, but is there no firewall
>>facility i.e. something like "/^VK\dF[A-Z]{3}/i REJECT" (which is a Perl
>>regex that matches any F-call)?
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>>>I'm not sure about other states, but in VK2 there seems to be more
>>>F-calls popping up on APRS lately.
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>>When it comes to technology the local body was recto-cranially inverted
>>for ages, but they're slowly coming into the 21st century (giving the 20th
>>a miss along the way).
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>>>Does anyone know VK2FIRE ????  If you do please remind them of the terms
>>>of their license.
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>>Seems to be a Phillip from Westlakes.  A quick search reveals:
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>http://www.vkclassifieds.vkham.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?sessi
>on_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=55768&query=retrieval
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