<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;">Okay. I'm now going to ignore what the Icom engineer told me and assume he didn't know what he was talking about. I have been reading the JARL information about the callsigns and understand what you'v been saying now.<br><br>Eric M. Gildersleeve ~ KD7CAO<br>
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Subject: Re: [drats_users] drats_users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11<br>
From: "John D. Hays" <john@hays.org><br>
Date: Tue, September 09, 2008 2:40 pm<br>
To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users@lists.danplanet.com><br>
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<div dir="ltr">And the spec doesn't limit it to alpha (you could use numbers).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Nate Duehr <font dir="ltr"><<a onclick="return true;Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=nate%40natetech.com');; return false;" href="mailto:nate@natetech.com" target="_blank" mce_href="mailto:nate@natetech.com">nate@natetech.com</a>></font> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Eric M. Gildersleeve ~ KD7CAO wrote:<br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">> One of the things that concerns me is that if the radio only supports 8<br> > character calls then we could severely limit some of our club owned<br> > equipment or even the public safety agency owned equipment. Since you<br> > can't use the A, B, C, G, or R and I believe a couple of others too.<br> <br> </div>Why not?<br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > I could be wrong but, I know that certain letters are reserved for just<br> > the Clusters. Also, the limit in that you can't have a radio with the<br> > same call as a repeater. So we can't have any W5NGU radios since we have<br> > a W5NGU cluster.<br> <br> </div>W5NGU++A through W5NGU++Z should be plenty of routes unless you have<br> more than 26 radios.<br> <br> The only limitation is that you can't use the REPEATER'S callsign in<br> user radios. You need a separate call.<br> <br> Nate WY0X<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br> drats_users mailing list<br> <a onclick="return true;Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=drats_users%40lists.danplanet.com');; return false;" href="mailto:drats_users@lists.danplanet.com" target="_blank" mce_href="mailto:drats_users@lists.danplanet.com">drats_users@lists.danplanet.com</a><br> <a href="http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users" mce_href="http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users" target="_blank">http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John D. Hays<br>Phone: 206-801-0820<br>Fax: 866-309-6077<br>Email: <a onclick="return true;Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=john%40hays.org');; return false;" href="mailto:john@hays.org" target="_blank" mce_href="mailto:john@hays.org">john@hays.org</a><br>VOIP/SIP: <a onclick="return true;Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=john%40hays.org');; return false;" href="mailto:john@hays.org" target="_blank" mce_href="mailto:john@hays.org">john@hays.org</a><br> </div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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