Once again: APRS is FINE to use in ARRL Contests. The ARRL has said so,
publicly.
To do so, one must simply remove the components of APRS that support:
(A) digipeating, when "assistance" is prohibited
(B) IGate-ing of your APRS packet, when "use of non-Amateur means of
communication is prohibited"
(C) assure that your 2-meter APRS station doesn't TX when you're calling CQ, in
events where "more than one signal per band is prohibited"
(D) reception of APRS packets that originate from participants who don't have
the same restrictions as you do in an event are filtered/eliminated.
This is the principle behind the APRS-based "HamIM Strategy". Now, for the
real issue: lots of people seem to ask for APRS during contests (when it
already exists) but few people actually use it.
Ev, W2EV
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