What is the LinLink Project All About.

[clayj at nwlink.com]

Umm, 'scuse me......

but WHERE, specifically, in Part 97 is the writing (quote please) that
says "......amateur radio communications MUST NOT take the place or be
used in place of normally available communications....".  Taken to the
logical extreme, that would mean that ANY amateur radio communications
would ONLY be legal in the most rural areas.

I think this is a MISCONCEPTION held by lots of folks, that MAY have been
true 'way back; but my read of Part 97 now is that it's the NATURE of the
communications (as quoted in my last message) that matters, and nothing
else.

Clay
N7QNM



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> All,
>
> Read Harv's  E-Mail carefully...he makes some good points and I will
> interject
> a few of my own...
>
>
> I hadn't looked at WinLink that way, but this does appear to merit a
> closer
> review of the situation much as we have looked at repeaters.  Please not
> that
> the FCC has said in Part 97  that amateur radio communications MUST NOT
> take
> the place or be used in place of normally available communications.  That
> means if you live in an area that is serviced by plane old telephone
> service,
>  that using a repeater autopatch as your only telephone communications is
> in
> violation of Part 97.
>
> I don't know where this leaved WinLink or using WiFi under Part 97 for
> bringing Internet connectivity to hams without broadband
> connectivity...but if
> you have access to DSL or cable broadband, then using WiFi under Part 97
> would
> appear to be a violation of Part 97.
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