[aprssig] TAC-5

[Andrew Rich]

Yes but I can also use TAC-5

I can't use his callsign and he can't use mine.

TAC-5 is a free for all.

Callsigns are unique.

What happens if I run TAC-5 in Australia.

And you try and message him

Unstuck


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Andrew Rich
Airways Technical Officer Grade 4
Surveillance - RADAR ADS-B
Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec at tech-software.net
web: www.tech-software.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists" <hamlists at ametx.com>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] TAC-5


> The reason for tactical callsign use is relatively simple: if I can 
> display/record stations based on function, it lessens the time and effort 
> required to operate in a tactical environment.  This applies to APRS, 
> voice, or any mode being used.  In other words, it is much easier to 
> recognize SHELTR-1 as shelter #1 than to try to determine if AE5PL is at 
> shelter #1, especially when AE5PL goes home to rest and W5EJL replaces 
> him.  If the net control needs to know the actual station callsign, there 
> it is in the text.  On voice, we send our callsign on the last 
> transmission of a transmission group and every 10 minutes if the 
> transmission group takes over 10 minutes.  A transmission group might be 
> checking in, stating a status, making a request, etc.  What is more 
> important to a tactical operation is what or where you are, not who you 
> are.
>
> Hope this helps clarify one of the main reasons why we use tactical 
> callsigns at a lot of events in the US.  It simplifies and streamlines the 
> actual operations of the event by emphasizing the information most 
> important to net controls and supported groups, not who each participant 
> is.
>
> 73,
>
> Pete Loveall AE5PL
> pete at ae5pl dot net
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Rich
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:16 AM
>>
>> If you got to the effort of making up your wizzo tactical callsign, why
>> not
>> just out you callsign.
>>
>> Doesn't wear out your keypad anymore than your wizzo callsign
>>
>> And what the heck - if a person only cops one packet from you , each
>> time
>> they will know who u are
>>
>> Unless you are working under SECRET APRS conditions and you don't want
>> anyone to know where you are (down to 6m)
>
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