[Xastir] 'Owning' station ID?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Rick Green wrote:

> 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!

Well, I said it was annoying...  ;-)

You don't expect to be able to hear a handheld direct when they're
on the other side of a mountain from you and are going through a
repeater, right?

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