[aprssig] RE: [OZAPRS] Re: SSID's

[Scott Miller]

Not so long as they ID properly somewhere.  They can do that in the comment
field, on a local AX.25 beacon (not digipeated), CW ID, or whatever.  This
is usually done for tactical callsigns, where it's more important to
indicate a station's function that its legal ID.

However, using the last three of your callsign for brevity in AX.25 is just
kind of silly, because it's a fixed length field.  Those bytes are still
getting transmitted, just with blanks.

Scott
N1VG
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec at tech-software.net>
To: <vk4tec at tech-software.net>; <ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au>; "TAPR APRS
Special Interest Group" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 1:16 PM
Subject: RE: [aprssig] RE: [OZAPRS] Re: SSID's


> another thing that gets up my nose is we have guys here
>
> using
>
> vk4xyz
>
> xyz>APRS>UI
>
> Shortened callsigns
>
> illegal ?
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