"Joseph Fenn" wrote in message
va.net...
Can someone advise me if I have the correct freqcys on 2 meters for
VHF Packet. I was told 145.01 145.03 145.05 (are commonly used for
VHF Packet). While I have done all my Packet on MARS freqcys for
last 50 years or so, I recently resigned and have hardly ever
gotten on the Ham bands. I use A C128 computer and the German
packet software called "DIGICOM V5".
Is it legal to turn on your Beacon say with a setting of every 30
mins?
Joe/KH6JF


To be strictly legal you can set it for beacon for as long as you are around
the shack . If you leave then you can not use the beacon mode. Beacons
must be kept in certain portions of the band.

§97.203 Beacon station.
(a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician, Technician
Plus, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be a
beacon. A holder of a Technician, Technician Plus, General, Advanced or
Amateur Extra Class operator license may be the control operator of a
beacon, subject to the privileges of the class of operator license held.

(b) A beacon must not concurrently transmit on more than 1 channel in the
same amateur service frequency band, from the same station location.

(c) The transmitter power of a beacon must not exceed 100 W.

(d) A beacon may be automatically controlled while it is transmitting on the
28.20-28.30 MHz, 50.06-50.08 MHz, 144.275-144.300 MHz, 222.05-222.06 MHz, or
432.300-432.400 MHz segments, or on the 33 cm and shorter wavelength bands.