<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>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...
<div><br></div><div>Andrew, KA2DDO</div><div>author of YAAC</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Stephen H. Smith via aprssig" <aprssig@lists.tapr.org> <br>Date: 5/9/20 14:03 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu>, TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@lists.tapr.org> <br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] HF APRS igates on fldigi <br><br>On 5/9/2020 11:14 AM, Robert Bruninga wrote:<br>> On HF, and using the decaying algorithm, I'd start at 1m, 2m, 4m, 8m and then <br>> stay at 16 minutes. <br><br>Maybe this would work on other HF bands, BUT NOT ON 60M !!!<br><br>We CANNOT legally have any kind of automated "untouched-by-human-hands" <br>spontaneous transmission on 60 meters.<br><br>The 60-meters "channels" (we are assigned only 5 single spot frequencies; not a <br>band with lower and upper frequency limits) are shared with federal users like <br>DOD and FEMA, with hams as secondary users.<br> We are obligated to monitor before transmitting and immediately yield to <br>federal users, should they activate a channel. Ham BBSes and mail-box-type <br>automated systems are already explicitly prohibited on 60m.<br><br>Any APRS activity on 60M MUST be by single beacon-on-demand.<br></body></html>