[Xastir] 'Owning' station ID?

[Rick Green]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> People often set up tactical callsigns on trackers, then send their
> callsign every 10 minutes as a separate broadcast or in the comment
> field.  Actually, a CWID every 10 minutes from a tactical callsign
> tracker is perfectly legal as well.  Just because people that are
> not within direct RF range won't know who that station is, doesn't
> mean that it's not useful or legal, annoying as that can be when
> you're the one trying to figure out who owns it!
  Yeah, that's the bottom line.  The FCC req's are for those who have
monitoring and DF capability.  I'm annoyed that I can't identify stations
easily thru just the filtered inet feed, so I was hoping for a higher
standard!

-- 
Rick Green

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