[OZAPRS] Advice wanted, tracking a walking person

[Darryl Ross]

If a foundation licencee is connected via the Internet to the APRS-IS,
then they are not operating a digital station, they are not computer
controlling a remote station and they are not operating a station
directly connected to the PTN - the operator of the igate is doing all
that. The foundation licencee has no direct connection to, and no
control of, any igate.

Having their callsign appear on a digital mode being illegal is wrong
too - it's not really any different from you and I mentioning an
foundation licencee's callsign via DV voice being illegal - the
foundation licencee has no more control over that.

No real difference to an foundation licencee running the echolink
software and connecting to a link or repeater station.

-Darryl, VK5HZ


Ray Wells wrote:
> We discussed F calls on APRS a while back.
> 
> Essentially, if it is their intention to have their callsign appear on 
> an AR system with RF outlets, which APRS is, F call licencees are 
> breaching their licence by using a digital mode.
> 
> It should not be up to end stations to stop F calls appearing illegally 
> on RF, it is the responsibility of the originating station to abide by 
> their LCD.
> 
> Ray vk2tv
> 
> Steve Sharp wrote:
>> I've used the APRS app on my Android Magic and was surprised how well 
>> it did work.
>>  
>> It would be even better if smart beaconing could be added by the author!
>>  
>> Take a look for VK2POO-7 on aprs.fi <http://aprs.fi> and you'll see a 
>> track from Tweed Hds down the highway.
>>  
>> Assuming you have mobile coverage in the intended area there is no 
>> legal impediment to a Foundation licence holder carrying the phone 
>> with the app running.
>>  
>> 73 de Steve VK2POO
>>
>> On 12 June 2010 13:44, James Cameron <vk2lqz at wia.org.au 
>> <mailto:vk2lqz at wia.org.au>> wrote:
>>
>>     G'day,
>>
>>     I'm currently tracking a walking person after the fact, using a GPS
>>     track log.  I'd like to track also during the event.
>>
>>     What devices are available?  I'd prefer to have everything in the one
>>     device; GPS receiver, tracker, and 2m beacon transmitter.  I'd prefer
>>     not to have to build it up from parts.  It would be really nice if
>>     I can
>>     just buy it and turn it on.  I'm already successfully receiving the
>>     local digipeater and rendering it on Xastir.
>>
>>     A competing solution is an iPhone or an Android based phone ... which
>>     have a GPS receiver and commercial digital radio transceiver.  It
>>     can be
>>     made to just work, provided there is mobile telephone service in the
>>     area.  Apps are available.
>>
>>     Also, an amateur licensing question ... which of these situations is
>>     allowed by the LCD?  In your opinion.
>>
>>     1.  tracking in the presence of a standard licensee,
>>
>>     2.  tracking transmissions set up by a standard licensee with the
>>     tracker carried by a foundation licensee,
>>
>>     3.  tracking transmissions set up by a standard licensee with the
>>     tracker carried by an unlicensed user, "second operator",
>>
>>     4.  tracking transmissions set up by a standard licensee with the
>>     tracker carried by an animal.
>>
>>     Also in cases 2 and 3, can the holder of the tracker initiate a
>>     transmission?  e.g. press a button to signal something that is not an
>>     emergency.
>>
>>     --
>>     James Cameron
>>     http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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