IARU Region 1 VHF Managers Handbook - UBA

7.8 PACKET-RADIO (MAILBOX) OPERATING PRACTICE
At the IARU Region 1 Conference in Torremolinos (1990) the following recommendation was adopted:
The Conference endorses the views expressed in documents 90/TS/C3.50 and 90/TS/C.53 on the
undesirability of spreading of inappropriate messages via Packet-Radio Bulletin Board Systems
and would extend this view to any use of the amateur bands which contravenes the definitions of
the Amateur Service and Amateur Satellite Service.
You will find document 90/TS/C3.53 contained the IARU Administrative Council Resolution 87-2 (revised
in 1989) in chapter 6.6.
Document 90/TS/C3.50 was a paper submitted by ARI, which with regard to messages having
inappropriate content in essence expressed the same views as AC Resolution 87-2.
At its meeting in Bandung, October 1991, the IARU Administrative Council re-considered the matter of
inappropriate traffic via Packet Radio, and drafted an additional Resolution 91-1. At its meeting in Vienna,
March 1992, the IARU Region 1 VHF/UHF/Microwaves Committee decided to recommend the immediate
introduction of this Resolution as interim Region 1 policy. This was accepted by the IARU Region 1
Executive Council at its meeting in Budapest, April 1992, and later ratified by the IARU Region 1
Conference in De Haan (1993). The AC Resolution 91-1 is attached as chapter 6.7.
7.9 Definition of a complete contact (deleted)
7.10 CONCERNING THE RELAYING OF MESSAGES TO AMATEUR STATIONS
RESOLUTION 87 2 (Revised 1989)
The IARU Administrative Council, Noordwijkerhout, April 1987,
recognising the problems caused by the handling by amateur stations of communications having
inappropriate content, particularly with regard to business and commercial matters
recognising the impact on other users of the crowded spectrum from unattended store and forward
("mailbox") stations, and further recognising that the problem of controlling the content of amateur
radiocommunication is made more difficult by the availability of such stations,
resolves that the Administrative Council affirms the action taken at its Buenos Aires meeting, in urging
member societies to emphasize to their members the importance of adhering to the spirit and intentions of
the ITU Radio Regulations, and of handling only that traffic which does conform; and further
resolves that member societies are hereby urged to acquaint their members as to the undesirable aspects
of the uncontrolled proliferation of unattended store and forward ("mailbox") stations.
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