The question was does the digital ID constitute a legal ID? I think 97.119 b 3 shows that it does. D-STAR is a digital emission that may contain digitized voice, but is none the less digital.
If not, every D-STAR repeater is operating illegally. We may all choose to also ID on voice except when operating voice, but not out of a legal need, as I read the cited rule. -- John D. Hays K7VE Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2009, at 22:00, "Ray T. Mahorney" <coffee-cra...@radio-nerd.net > wrote: > I have to agree here in this case there is no reason to depart from > excepted practice. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ki4umx" <ki4...@comcast.net> > To: <dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 21:30 > Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Legally Identifying? > > --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "Chip" <cleg...@...> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > Just my opinion, it's a good idea to keep doing it - so you won't > forget when you go to analog > mode. > > 73 > Hank - KI4UMX > > ------------------------------------ > > Please TRIM your replies or set your email program not to include > the original message in reply > unless needed for clarity. ThanksYahoo! Groups Links > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
