[App_rpt-users] How to turn on AllStar ID Requirements

[Brett Friermood]

As with some other things, this boils down to definitions. Since we are
talking legalities under the FCC rules, we need to use the FCC's
definitions, even if we, the greater amateur community, call something by a
different name.

Both beaconing and transmitting information bulletins are legal, but both
are used differently, have different results, and have different applicable
rules. Use the appropriate definition when determining the legality of
your, or another's, station.

This same drawn out argument could occur when someone "broadcasts" a
message to a group of amateurs. As written that would be illegal because of
the use of the word "broadcast" which according to the FCC is transmitting
information to the general public, something we are not allowed to do.
Meanwhile what is really happening is that station sent an information
bulletin, even though almost no one would call it that.

Brett KQ9N


On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Bill South <wbs099 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> By beaconing I simply meant a station ID at some given interval even if no
> traffic has come thru; symantics I guess.  Beacon IDs have been done for
> decades on packet, so I can't imagine it would be illegal to ID your
> Asterisk station (simplex node or repeater) at given intervals even if
> there has been no traffic on it.  Lot of analog repeaters do interval IDs.
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