[aprssig] APRS spouse

[Chris Rose]

I would caution anyone who does this that if no one has any control over it and it malfunctions who can or will turn if off?  If the woman driving the car can't and it QRMs for any reason and can't be shut off, how is that curteous and keeping with our standard of having a control operator available to shut off a transmitter due to malfunction?  Repeaters have to have DTMF or telephone controls to turn them off.  I would think this tracker needs a shut off of some kind.  If that means the driver of the car, then so be it.  
 
73,
Chris 

----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Rausch <jason at ke4nyv.com>
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 12:03:56 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] APRS spouse


My understanding on this was it was ok as long as the
person drving the vehical did not have direct access
to the equipment.  I guess meaning that the equipment
would be left to operate in the manner that the
licesed ham set them up to operate.

Sort of the same thing with tactical callsigns on
vehicals like in a bike race, as long as the licensed
ham's callsign is in the comment field, that makes it
legal.

Anyways, thats how it was emplained to me.

Just my $0.02,
Jason KE4NYV
www.ke4nyv.com
RPC Electronics
www.rpc-electronics.com


--- Roger Hammond <rahammond at charter.net> wrote:

> I would imagine this subject has probably been
> beaten to death and has as
> many gray areas as a black & white photo, but here
> goes...
> Is it legal to run an APRS tracker in an unlicensed
> spouses vehicle? For
> that matter, the one in my vehicle runs 24/7
> (KC0MWM-9) and if she were to
> drive my vehicle it would be running.
> I'm also involved in Amateur Radio High Altitude
> Ballooning and essentially
> the tracker on board the balloon payload is no
> different.
> 
> I'm curious what everyone thinks about the
> legalities of this type of
> operation.
> 
> Comments and suggestions?
> 
> Roger KC0MWM
> www.cnnsp.org
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