by Padre \u2013 W\u00d8WPD<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While I don\u2019t hear kerchunking on our machine as often as I do on others for obvious reasons, it happens often enough for me to remind folks of the problem with it. It is sometimes illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kerchunking is legal — as long as one gives his\/her call sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Doing so without a call sign is also discourteous to other users of the repeater, especially those of us who monitor it a lot of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all, I imagine, kerchunk once in a while. It\u2019s a way to see if the machine is \u201cup\u201d and we can hit it. That\u2019s OK with a call sign. If we aren\u2019t looking for a contact just say, \u201cTesting\u201d or \u201cClear.\u201d Or, perhaps if looking for a contact, we might say \u201cMonitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kerchunk as you need to \u2026 but stay legal: GIVE YOUR CALL SIGN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Padre \u2013 W\u00d8WPD While I don\u2019t hear kerchunking on our machine as often as I do on others for obvious reasons, it happens often enough for me to remind folks of the problem with it. It is sometimes illegal. Kerchunking is legal — as long as one gives his\/her call sign. Doing so without…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab0pc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}