[d-star] NFCC votes to recommend FCC treat all repeaters as repeaters

[Doug Reed]

Correct. It is a half-duplex system.

Doug.

Erik Westgard wrote:
> So our DD L band gear is still not a repeater...
>
>
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> Subject: [d-star] NFCC votes to recommend FCC treat all repeaters as
> repeaters
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> Subject: NFCC votes to recommend FCC treat all repeaters as repeaters
>
>
> The membership of the National Frequency Coordinators' Council has voted to
> ask the FCC to treat all repeaters as repeaters, regardless of mode or
> transmission protocol. The following motion was adopted:
>
> That the NFCC send a letter to the FCC that states that the NFCC believes
> that any amateur station, other than a message forwarding system, that
> automatically retransmits a signal sent by another amateur station on a
> different frequency while it is being received, regardless of any delays in
> processing that signal or its format or content, is a repeater station
> within the meaning of paragraph 97.3(a)(39) of the rules of the Federal
> Communications Commission, and should be treated as such.
>
> Under the NFCC's proportional voting system, 93 votes were cast in favor of
> the motion by 19 members, and 54 against by 11 members.
>
> The letter will be sent to the FCC's Bill Cross today.
>