On (09 May 96) Danny Burdick wrote to Leonard Falknau...
 DB>  * In a message originally for Leonard Falknau, All writes:
 LF> just a quick note ,
 LF>                   i am the proud owner of a kenwood 733 and i notice the
 LF> set is able to cross band repeat though this is not legal in australia i
 LF> think!!!
 LF> do other countries allow this and if so are there any power restrictions
 LF> on this practice.
 DB>    So what's not legal.....hams police themselves...and the use of the
 DB> frequencies....is under a bandplan...(a gentlemans agreement) not a
 DB> law... I don't know about Austrailia....but as long as you are not
 DB> causing
 DB> interference to anyone.....their are literally thousands of
 DB> cross-banding repeaters in operation everywhere at all hours of the
 DB> day and night....
Close, Danny, but no cigar for you! "Interference" has nothing to
do with anything except "bandplans". EVERY station that transmits MUST
identify here in the US of A. Those cross-band "repeaters" don't give
out your call and are therefore not legal according to part 97
rules.......
Even if you, as the user, state your call when you come on the air, it
is NOT repeated by the "dual bander" on what YOU are listening to,
i.e. the input side of the "repeater" you are using. Since it
retransmits what it "hears" THAT side is not properly identifing.
... If tennis elbow is painful, imagine what tennis balls are like
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