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<DIV>Hi All,</DIV>
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<DIV>Just a thought but, </DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone can connect to a public internet aprs site and can use any
name they choose to identify themselves, after all the internet
is public domain and sites such as aprs.fi are available for everyone
in general to use, eg just look at all of the commecial shipping etc that
you can see on there. So no arguments there, but ..... </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>When a station uses their own personal VK amateur radio foundation licence
callsign, they ARE advertising themselves as a VK amateur radio
foundation station. </DIV>
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<DIV>The thought here, is this, firstly a non-VK amateur seeing a VK
amateur callsign will naturally assume the ststion is allowed to use
aprs, and this leads to problems with the second point, as
already highlighted by Richard and Ray. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If a number of F calls were broadcasting using their ham f call callsign by
whatever method onto a website and their stations were then being gated back to
RF, and if the amateur responsible for an Igate is also responsible for ensuring
that an F call's callsign is not gated from the internet through to
RF (keep in mind how difficult it would be to try to keep track of all the
callsigns that can or can not use aprs, from every country worldwide not
just VK), then following this train of thought, wouldn't the only option
available, to every Igate operator world wide, be to turn all the
Igates off ,
........what would we have then?</DIV>
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<DIV>Paul, vk5vhf</DIV>
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<A title=sharpst@gmail.com href="mailto:sharpst@gmail.com">Steve Sharp</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ozaprs@aprs.net.au
href="mailto:ozaprs@aprs.net.au">Australian APRS Users</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 04, 2010 8:55
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [OZAPRS] APRS with
Foundation license</DIV>
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<DIV>Seeking opinions on this scenario.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Foundation licence holder installs APRS app on their Iphone - this will
allow them to track, beacon and message into the APRS network.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Or, they install Xastir or a similar on a PC without any radio
attached.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Would either of these breech the LCD's pertaining to a Foundation
licence?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Steve VK2POO<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Andrew Macmichael <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:bajdas@yahoo.com.au">bajdas@yahoo.com.au</A>></SPAN>
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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
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<DIV>I am receiving different opinions to the following question and I would
appreciate your opinion please.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1/ Can Amateur Foundation license holders buy, install and operate APRS
for position reporting ?</DIV>
<DIV>2/ What frequencies can we, or cannot use ?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I suspect Foundation licenses can use 2m APRS frequencies, but we
cannot build the equipment. Thus the confusion.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Andrew Macmichael</DIV>
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