<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><br></div><div><div><div>On 19/06/2010, at 6:36 PM, Darryl Ross wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>If a foundation licencee is connected via the Internet to the APRS-IS,<br>then they are not operating a digital station, they are not computer<br>controlling a remote station and they are not operating a station<br>directly connected to the PTN - the operator of the igate is doing all<br>that. The foundation licencee has no direct connection to, and no<br>control of, any igate.<br><br>Having their callsign appear on a digital mode being illegal is wrong<br>too - it's not really any different from you and I mentioning an<br>foundation licencee's callsign via DV voice being illegal - the<br>foundation licencee has no more control over that.<br><br>No real difference to an foundation licencee running the echolink<br>software and connecting to a link or repeater station.<br><br>-Darryl, VK5HZ<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>You have a good point there.</div><div><div>From page 19 of the 2008 LCD :</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Note </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">An amateur foundation station may be indirectly connected to a</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">public telecommunications network through a gateway operated by another licensee.</span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Cheers</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Martin</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">VK6ZMS</span></font></div></body></html>