Re: Callsigns

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:29:19AM +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote:
> Hi Guy's..
> 
> 		With the advent of "Foundation" Type callsigns within Australia, we
> have now been issued with 4 Letter Suffixes, which do not conform to the
> AX25 standard. The callsigns VK5FABC are being issued now, however, we
> are unable to implement them due to limited to 6 callsign places.  Is
> there going to be a fix for this?

There is no way to fix it that is compatible with AX.25 implementations,
as far as I can see. The packet header only has a 6 character space per
callsign.

The ACMA's web site is currently extremely slow. I expect that the
Foundation licensees aren't allowed on packet though, so this seems a
bit moot.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>