There *will* be such a requirement in the next FCC go-around -- failure to ID in a common mode so our self-policing hobby has a prayer of self-policing has been a major concern of folks communicating to the FCC.
They have heard that loud -- and in the clear. :-) Add to that the concerns about functional-encryption for highly proprietary and costly modes and we will see increased demands from the FCC for common mode ID's -- and hopefully public domain receive-only versions of proprietary modes. The FCC does not want to have to directly police the Ham bands so they have to give Hams the tools to do it for them. > John Champa wrote: > Good operating practice is to always ID in the mode! > >> Go for it but make shore all of you ID in CW so your >> calles can be noted by the stations who will complain >> ... >>> >>> There is no FCC requirement for CW ID on Digital Voice. >>> Bonnie KQ6XA -- Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E Personal: http://bibleseven.com/kd4e.html Ham QTH: http://mysite.verizon.net/kd4e/
