Hi Steinar, The FCC needs to address Winmor also, if we are to continue to keep our shared bands open. However, Winmor is new, and it takes time to move a government body, and complaints must also be filed by those harmed.
In the case of spread spectrum, as it pertains to ROS, spread spectrum has already been addressed, but the FCC needs to issue a new opinion, and I hope Andy's letter to the FCC Commissioner will help make that happen. The danger is that ROS has been described as spread spectrum and appears to use frequency hopping as described, so the FCC's initial reaction might be that spread spectrum of any kind (or width) is only permitted at 222 MHz or above (cell phones use the technology too) as stated in the current regulations. It may take a formal petition to the FCC to allow limited spread spectrum of the kind used by ROS to get an amendment to the rules instead of just a clarification which may go against us. We will have to see what happens. Basically, IMHO. no "quasi-commercial" messaging "services" should be allowed on the ham bands, as these are true "amateur" activites. There is plenty of room for those on the Sailmail network without taking away from space needed for amateur hobby activities. With sunspots returning, this will soon become a much bigger problem as our bands get more crowded with more traditional amateur communications, and signals simply propagate farther. 73, Skip > You wrote "One problem with traditional spread spectrum is that it is > designed to be hard to monitor, which therefore means hard to police," > What about the lack of capability to monitor the winmor mode ? > > 73 de LA5VNA Steinar > > ------------------------------------ Try Hamspots, PSKreporter, and K3UK Sked Page http://www.obriensweb.com/skedpskr4.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: digitalradio-dig...@yahoogroups.com digitalradio-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: digitalradio-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
