[OZAPRS] APRS with Foundation license

[Ray Wells]

Nor should we have to monitor every packet, Scott.

Ray vk2tv

On 05/10/10 19:17, Scott Evans wrote:
> As an I-gate sysop, there is only one way an F call will appear from 
> the Internet to RF is if they are using a valid call pass, Now for 
> those of us that use Linux the code for such is freely available and 
> is distributed with both APRSD & XASTIR (possibly others) so for 
> instance..
>
> callpass VK7FXXX
> Passcode for VK7FXXX is 4791
>
> Now there is nothing preventing any person Amateur or otherwise from 
> receiving APRS data, but this is not the issue, it the transmission 
> coming most likely from an iPhone/Android application or a PC. the F 
> call in this instance should ONLY enter a call pass of -1 (or left 
> blank if that is what the client prefers)
>
> There was much discussion a while back on the javAPRSSvr mailing list 
> (this is the software used by the CORE & T2 servers and also by some 
> I-Gate sysops, myself included) on developing a better way to 
> authenticate a users credentials, there was talk of using SSL certs 
> but the maintenance would be horrendous! not to mention breaking 
> compatibility with older APRS clients like UI-View etc... So this  was 
> soon knocked on the head as being to time consuming to maintain and 
> implement, after all this is a hobby not on-line banking!
>
> So my take on this is that whilst the LCD states what is does for each 
> grade of licence, we are obliged to adhere to them, of course there 
> will be a minority that won't but you get that with any rules & regs!
>
> I for one will not be implementing any such "filtering" to catch out 
> any possible breach of license, I only have the APRS spec ALIAS's set 
> and that's for nogate/rfonly/nocall I certainly don't have the time to 
> sit and monitor every packet that is transmitted within range of my 
> I-Gate!
>
> -- 
> Scott Evans <scott at vk7hse.hobby-site.org 
> <mailto:scott at vk7hse.hobby-site.org>>
>
>
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