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Not only is this the busiest time of year for the postal service, it is a busy time for most people as well. Keep in mind that the HamGadgets company is actually only one man, and he has a lot going on. Dan Magro, W7RF, is the ARRL Technical Specialist for the Colorado Section, the Rocky Mountain DX club President, as well as NCARC, WARC, past President. He's also a 6-meter band fanatic, and with all of the recent aurora activity, he is probably banging out Morse code DX contacts on 50.125MHz. If you order a kit, he is the guy who counts all the parts, bags them up, and ships them. If you ordered a product assembled and tested, he is the one who solders it together, and tests it. ...then re-packages it for shipping. I've never had bad service from the guy, but I can see how he might get behind schedule a bit.

You do realize this is the busiest week of the year for USPS, right? I wouldn't assume the problem is with Hamgadget just because USPS can't provide tracking info yet.

I believe the term "wireline" here refers to use of the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to control a station or interface to a station (voice in the case of GMRS). The typical use case of a wireline interface was to provide a phone patch. You have to go back in time to understand the use of the term "wireline carrier." It was initially used to differentiate from other forms of communication, such as RCCs - Radio Communication Carriers and later differentiated between the legacy wireline carriers and their (at the time new) wireless (I.e. cellular) offshoots. I do not think the quoted Part 95 paragraph was intended to, or does, prohibit interconnection of repeaters or repeaters and receivers by use of dedicated circuits be they from the phone company, competing local exchange carriers (CLECS) or even Internet.

As you quoted a rule "wireline". My understanding is that is TELCO line to a transmit site. I know many GMRS systems that use Microwave on a voted system.