[aprssig] HF APRS igates on fldigi

[spam8mybrain]

Drat. I wished I'd seen this email 5 hours earlier. I would have delayed the build of YAAC I just put out so I could include a manual-only beacon mode. Oh, well, next build...
    
Andrew, KA2DDOauthor of YAAC

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From: "Stephen H. Smith via aprssig" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org> 
Date: 5/9/20  14:03  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Robert Bruninga <bruninga at usna.edu>, TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig at lists.tapr.org> 
Subject: Re: [aprssig] HF APRS igates on fldigi 

On 5/9/2020 11:14 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote:> On HF, and using the decaying algorithm, I'd start at 1m, 2m, 4m, 8m and then > stay at 16 minutes.  Maybe this would work on other HF bands, BUT NOT ON 60M !!!We CANNOT legally have any kind of automated "untouched-by-human-hands" spontaneous transmission on 60 meters.The 60-meters "channels" (we are assigned only 5 single spot frequencies; not a band with lower and upper frequency limits) are shared with federal users like DOD and FEMA, with hams as secondary users.     We are obligated to monitor before transmitting and immediately yield to federal users, should they activate a channel. Ham BBSes and mail-box-type automated systems are already explicitly prohibited on 60m.Any APRS activity on 60M MUST be by single beacon-on-demand.
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