I drop back to common sense on this question:
1. What is the purpose of an ID? So the FCC or anyone listening can contact you if your transmissions are causing a problem. 2. Can the FCC or anyone else figure out who you are if they need to, from the full content of your transmission if you don't ID in voice? I say yes, they can. Someone else pointed out that one of the rigs offered by one manufacturer can't see the callsigns, but that's a limitation of the rig, not the protocol. You're still sending it, even if their rig can't see it. your callsign is there in the on-air emission. Nate WY0X From: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com [mailto:dstar_digi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chip Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:37 AM To: dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Legally Identifying? With D-STAR, is it necessary to verbally identify transmissions with your callsign? My question assumes that the MYCALL field is correctly set of course. A local friend and I have frequent simplex conversations and have been saying our callsigns to be safe, but since the radio is encoding our calls, is it actually necessary? -Chip Legett, WX9EMT [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
