[drats_users] drats_users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11

[John D. Hays]

And the spec doesn't limit it to alpha (you could use numbers).

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

> Eric M. Gildersleeve ~ KD7CAO wrote:
> > One of the things that concerns me is that if the radio only supports 8
> > character calls then we could severely limit some of our club owned
> > equipment or even the public safety agency owned equipment. Since you
> > can't use the A, B, C, G, or R and I believe a couple of others too.
>
> Why not?
>
> > I could be wrong but, I know that certain letters are reserved for just
> > the Clusters. Also, the limit in that you can't have a radio with the
> > same call as a repeater. So we can't have any W5NGU radios since we have
> > a W5NGU cluster.
>
> W5NGU++A through W5NGU++Z should be plenty of routes unless you have
> more than 26 radios.
>
> The only limitation is that you can't use the REPEATER'S callsign in
> user radios.  You need a separate call.
>
> Nate WY0X
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