On 13.10.2014 10:45, John Wiseman wrote:
I don't see how you can describe a legal CB station operating within the terms of his licence as a pirate.
Yes, true. CB0AFU has nothing to do with radio at all. It is just something on the Internet. Sorry for the "pirate".
Whether you want to allow a legal CB station to connect to the ham packet network is another issue
For me it is an issue. As of now I consider the Packet Radio network as a closed amateur radio network and I don't have any legal issues passing traffic e.g. on 23-cm packet radio links.
but I don't see it as any more of a problem than allowing any Internet email user to send messages into the network
And even this is not commonly agreed to be no problem...
or allow any Internet user to access resources on the 44 net.
We don't allow any Internet user to key up any radio by sending packets to the German allocations of net44.
73, Jann