[aprssig] Another Bootlegger Using APRS As a Commercial AVLSystem ???

[Doug Ferrell, KD4MOJ]

-----Original Message-----
AFAIK, so long as one sends a legal identification packet one may use
a tactical call, if you will, in the position packet. Public service
organizations do this all the time. Given that, the truck driver could
easily be legal, just using the ETI-x tactical call while sending a
ham call sign outside the position packet. Does it rub against
convention? Certainly,.. and may even be on the fringe of illegal IF
being used commercially.

I would be careful about marching up and introducing yourself without
some tact and knowledge that some do not play by the same rules.

Len Revelle N9IJ
n9ij at comcast.net

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  Len there is no callsign associated with any of his/her packets:

2009-01-03 17:10:56 UTC:
ETI-2>SV0Q6U,WIDE1-1,N4CKV-1,WIDE2*,qAR,N4CKV-4:`s&4l^xu/"6\}On the Way!
 2009-01-03 18:08:10 UTC:
ETI-2>SV0Q4Q,WM4Q-2,N4CKV-1,WIDE2*,qAR,N4CKV-4:`s.gr"Wu/"6c}
 2009-01-03 18:10:48 UTC:
ETI-2>SV0Q0T,WM4Q-2,N4CKV-1,WIDE2*,qAR,N4CKV-4:`s1zr6Cu/"6R}
 2009-01-03 19:01:33 UTC:
ETI-2>SU4X5T,KB4YTM-4,WIDE1*,WIDE2-1,qAR,KB4YTM-1:`t.CrJPu/"5e}
 2009-01-03 21:44:54 UTC:
ETI-2>SU0Y4W,N4GMT-3*,WIDE2-1,qAR,WB4EPG-3:`v`9lR7u/"4[}
 2009-01-03 21:45:23 UTC:
ETI-2>SU0Y5Q,N4GMT-3*,WIDE2-1,qAR,WB4EPG-3:`v`7lf|u/"4\}
 2009-01-04 04:59:40 UTC:
ETI-2>APT312,KK5PP-3,WIDE1*,WIDE2-1,qAR,K5JRA-1:>MT8000FA v1.0

   So if it's a ham, he is not being legal.