What is the LinLink Project All About.

[dubose at texas.net]

Quoting 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.


§97.113 Prohibited transmissions. 
 (a) No amateur station shall transmit: 

    (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be 
        furnished alternatively through other radio services. 

The key word of course is "regular basis which I negelected to reference.

Walt/K5YFW


> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> <message truncated some>
> > 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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