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Nor should we have to monitor every packet, Scott.<br>
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Ray vk2tv<br>
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On 05/10/10 19:17, Scott Evans wrote:
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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..<br>
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callpass VK7FXXX<br>
Passcode for VK7FXXX is 4791<br>
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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) <br>
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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!<br>
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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! <br>
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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!<br>
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