"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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You *MUST* be a licensed Amateur to use IRLP, you *MUST* use a radio to
access IRLP. Therefore it is getting *LICENSED AMATEURS* on air.

It in *NO* way interferes with your on air activities so leave it alone
and enjoy your hobby without *INTERFERING* with others.


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73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
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How is that "LICENSE" proven? Who or what checks it? How is that done?

Dan/W4NTI

The same way any valid licence is checked when you use any ham frequency -
by "self regulation".

Using IRLP is no different than firing up on your local repeater that is
linked to some other repeater in the distance. There is the exact same
potential for unlicensed users on IRLP as there is on any other amateur
frequency, no more, no less. Yet you don't seem to be claiming that 2m is
open to CBers, or that 40m is not a valid ham band.....

If you accept that linking amateur repeaters via land line is OK, then you
have no basis upon which to reject IRLP - it is the same, linking repeaters
via land lines, except it uses internet technology to make that affordable
for anyone rather than the expense of a dedicated leased line.. Without the
VOiP linking repeaters by landline can be rather costly, so the number of
repeaters you could link would be limited. Now that expense has been
removed so that any local club, or local ham, can establish a node and allow
the repeater to be linked to any one of thousands of other ham repeaters
worldwide. Seems that all they have done is expand existing technology -
isn't that what ham radio is all about??????

Then again, we faced this kind of narrow minded, arrogant discrimination
when they proposed access to amateur frequencies by operators that hadn't
learnt CW... Seems it is just another example of the old timers stomping
their feet because times are changing - must've been real hard when valves
were replaced!


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Martin, VK2UMJ

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