WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

A have to agree with Gavin as well on that one. When I read you stating "100% legal because my mate is a VK6 operator and this how you can QSO around the world" I almost fell off my chair.

Even if the Prime Minister setup a repeater on a non designated 1-8 channel and not registered, its still an illegal act.

I am in nz ,i hapened to be txing at the same time that someone else was keying one of the eqso rptrs,i thought at first i was keying a local rptr that was connected to eqso.What is FRN Canada ?

Avtur50_exVet wrote:G'day,
This is run by my mate and it is 100% legal because my mate is a VK6 operator and this how you can QSO around the world anyone who does not conforms to the rules is muted by the owner of the gateway incidentally one has be setup in Kunnurra so if you get the software and register your callsign your on the air.
The mate who owns the repeater is Russ and he is on 17 UHF CB
Pat

Hiighly illegal. This form of Packet does not conform with the LCD's set by ACMA. The only form of Telemetry available to CBRS users is on Ch22/23 to control apparatus - not speech...

The old saying "One day your going to get caught..." springs to mind for some reason

Carry on boys - not long till the RI comes knockin!

Cheers, CC

Weve spoken to The ACMA about it and they dont think it is "Highly Illegal"

Was listening to 18 last night. Pretty interesting, does sound to be VOIP being rebroadcasted on UHF, and then incoming UHF being broadcasted back through VOIP.

vk6hsv wrote:Weve spoken to The ACMA about it and they dont think it is "Highly Illegal"

Ok George, if you say so.

Im not trying to cause conjecture or start an argument or anything Im just telling you exactly what happened. The facts are....

I phoned up the ACMA and asked to speak to someone in regards to UHF CB regulations and asked them about the whole gateway issue, and the officer I spoke to who's name I wont publish stated:

"The ACMA is aware of its existance but can not find any grounds to take any action at present and wont take any action until further legislation comes into effect to the contrary."

So it would appear it is NOT "Highly Illegal"

These uhf channels are being used on Eqso
ch 26 Kalamunda WA
ch 18 Brigadoon WA
ch 27 Bunbury WA
ch 17 Margaret River WA
ch 17 Rockingham WA
ch 17 South hedland WA
and there is also a crosslink to FRN UK 446 frequencies
and i also saw a link to one of the channel 1 rptrs in the same Eqso room but it isn't there at the moment

To listen to RFDS Base Frequencies, at Jandakot, you would need a UHF receiver, is that right and an aerial too ???

Well thank You for all that concurred with me on the Gateway Radio,
Maybe someone needs to make sure their brains in neutral before they select their mouth.
Pat

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I can also confirm what vk6hsv said. I also had email contact with a Perth based ACMA radio inspector and they told me the exact same story.

Thanks

You didn't answer my question. I was querying what the hell you were on about, as I could not make much from your post ablove.

If ACMA read their own documents they would see that:
http://www.wia.org.au/members/legislati ... 5B1%5D.pdf



5 Class Licence
Subject to sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, a person may only operate a CB
station that:
(a) directly transmits speech to, or audio tones to initiate communication
with, another CB station:

Using the internet is not directly initiating communication with another
CB station.

Depends how you want to go about "directly". If they mean, the frequency leaves one antenna and is received by another, then no, internet doesn't count.