Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie ) Newsgroups: net.news.stargate Subject: Re: Stargate Deployment: possibilities Message-ID: <8463@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 10:49:26 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8463 Posted: Fri Feb 22 10:49:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Feb-85 07:57:14 EST References: <165@redwood.UUCP> <566@vortex.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 24 > I've had a ham license for years, and I've been watching the packet > radio developments quite closely. In the recent past, I've been > informally solicited regarding my opinions of ham liability > for messages passing through their own digital repeaters (people > are finally starting to worry about that). Yes, any repeater control station can tell you about how restrictive they got over autopatches (to the uninformed, this is where someone using a voice repeater, keys in a code that gets a phone line connected to the repeater). The rule is that autopatches can only be used when their is a control station on duty and listening. Prior to that we just logged all the autopatches (using a surplus logging recorder) to comply with the other third party rules requiring logging of the third parties who use the equipment. We left it up to the ham placing the call to regulate the emissions of his third party. Well, the analogy of this to a packet bboard is that a control station must screen all third party messages, not another HAM using or posting to the board, but a control station. (Aside: control stations are authorized people in charge who can excercise control of the station, like turning it off, either by being at the transmitter, at some remote control point, or using either phone or radio remote control (radio remote control must be on another frequency than the repeater and on the 440 band or higher).