I've heard something interesting yesterday on one of the local repeaters. A person used the phone patch and got placed on hold. The place he called had music on hold and someone came on the repeater and told him to hang up because playing music is illegal.
I guess if you follow the letter of the law it is, but I would think this is kind of a grey area. Your not playing the music although your ticket is responseable because your the one initiating the call. Just that today music on hold is not uncommon and if phone patches are legal, then the FCC rules may need to be changed slightly.
In article <kgk-1908941148450001@kgkmac.repoc.nwu.edu> kgk@nwu.edu (Kenneth Kalan) writes:
>
>I've heard something interesting yesterday on one of the local repeaters. A person used the phone patch and got placed on hold. The place he called had music on hold and someone came on the repeater and told him to hang up because playing music is illegal.
>
>I guess if you follow the letter of the law it is, but I would think this is kind of a grey area. Your not playing the music although your ticket is responseable because your the one initiating the call. Just that today music on hold is not uncommon and if phone patches are legal, then the FCC rules may need to be changed slightly.
>
>I'm curious what others think about this.
I'm sure it's illegal, and it should be immoral and fattening as well
considering the saccharine pap they play. The person whose license is
in jeopardy is the trustee of the repeater, because it's his station
transmitting the music. This is doubly illegal because it's transmission
of music, and because the "music" most businesses use is obscenely bad
music. (There's no Twisted Sister, no Black Sabbath, not even any Whitesnake,
how can they call the dreck they play music?) When the FCC relaxed the no
business rule, they opened this can of worms. The correct thing to do, on
the repeater, or on a landline, is when you hear music on hold, hang up
immediately. I always do.
Gary
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Date: 19 Aug 1994 21:19:16 GMT
From: mozo.cc.purdue.edu!rain!mconner@purdue.edu
Subject: Repeater Directory?
To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
In article <cb.21512.2099@nitelog.com> mario.campos@nitelog.com (Mario Campos) writes:
>Subject: Repeater Directory?
>
>Quoting Zack Lester to ALL concerning Repeater Directory?:
>
>>Is there a telnet site, or a text file that has the entire contents of
>>the ARRL repeater directory?
>>
>>Zack Lester
>Why would copyrighted, commercial text be available for gratis? Easiest
>access is to order one from ARRL or visit your local ham store!
I'd like to see this list electronically somewhere, even if I did
have to pay for it. For example, when the 2m band opened the other
night, I was hitting repeaters all over the place. I'd like to have a
comprehensive list so that all I had to do was punch in a frequency
and I'd get back all the repeaters on that freq. It's a lot easier
than thumbing through umpteen pages of listing (esp. if you're in a
hurry).
Having lat/lon with each listing would be nice too, for making your
own maps, figuring direction to the repeater, etc.
Is there such a list compiled by someone, free or otherwise?
--
Mark D. Conner - N9XTN Opinions expressed here are
Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences not necessarily those of the
Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette IN 47907 Government, DoD, Purdue, or
