[RTTY] New Winlink usage

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:40 PM,  <nq4u at mtars.org> wrote:

> One of the things that folks need to remember about using the WINLINK system
> in the U.S. is that an operator (the end user) must initiate the contact to
> the RMS. It is legal for operators in some other countries to use the
> automated forward system on Amateur frequencies but not in the U.S. The RMS
> that is either listening on a single frequency or scanning five frequencies
> DOES NOT initiate the contact at least in the U.S amateur bands.

Which rule do you claim these hosts meet?

Either mailhosts are an "automatically controlled digital station"
under 97.221, and hence are limited in bandwidth and by band plan, or
they are being remotely controlled by stations under 97.213's
telecommand provisions, in which case they can only be controlled by
wireline or auxiliary station and the stations remotely controlling
the mailhosts never meet the definition of an auxiliary station.

Which is it?

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