Now, this makes a little more sense. As you show here, if you are using say a DTMF or Tone Page to activate only one radio or pager at a single time is not considered paging, but if you are activating more than 1 pager, then that is considered broadcasting, correct.
One problem is that here locally, several ARES/RACES groups in a few cities and counties, have their repeaters setup to set out a tone alert and DTMF code that opens up pagers setup for the tones and radios setup for the DTMF code to activate SkyWarn nets and more. Some say that their paging cycle takes up to 2 minutes to complete from start to finish, so I don't know if the system sends the tone page to each member one at a time or not. But all of them talk about sending out the tones ot DTMF tones to open the radios and pagers of their members. I would consider this paging "broadcasting" myself, though it might no be when the rules and regs are applied. But my question is still, doesn't the FCC also consider the one way transmission from, again as an example, W1AW that are training codes, announcements, bullitens, etc. to also be a "broadcast" transmission, since it is intened for all amateurs that receive it? That is one way I am confused about broadcasting, as it applies to the rules. --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "n9wys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey - don't wrap me up in this, simply because I **am** "one To-many"... > > 73 de Mark TOMANY - N9WYS > Sorry - couldn't resist a bit of weird humor... hi hi > > -----Original Message----- > From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 97.201 (e): An auxiliary station may transmit one-way communications. > > Amateur paging, at least as how I use it, is a one way transmission from > the "auxiliary" station to the pagee, & is not "broadcasting", a > "one-to-many" transmission. > > Bob NO6B >
