Sorry if you misunderstood that. I am not sure where you saw me make such a claim and you might want to point me to such a statement.
My point frequently has been that unattended operation is not permitted in the U.S. and Riley Hollingsworth has stated this publicly. What I have said is that the ARRL (and others) have incorrectly used the term unattended. Realistically though, I often wonder if this is a distinction without a difference. I am not sure how much "control" is going on with automatic stations. It might be wise for PropNet to not use the term "beacon" and call it a test transmission since only a few world wide coordinated beacons are legal below 28 MHz here in the U.S. They obviously can never leave the station unattended without a rules violation, unless we hear differently from the FCC. 73, Rick, KV9U John Becker, WØJAB wrote: > Rick > You keep lumping " automatic " together with " unattended " > > As you may know the ProrNet site says to NEVER leave > your station untended as well as the WL2K site. > > > > > > > > Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at > http://www.obriensweb.com/drsked/drsked.php > > > View the DRCC numbers database at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/database > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
