On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:55 -0400, Bob Bruninga wrote: > Sorry, one can also claim that every transmission is one-way because > only under full duplex conditions is a system truely two-way. There > are all kinds of applications in amateur radio where one side of the > link uses different hardware than the other return side, and once can > make all kinds of arguments as to how much delay is involved between > the transmission and the receiption.. 3 seconds? 10 seconds, a > minute? 10 minutes? A day? When you make a call to a party TO > ESTABLISH commmunications it is one way, until the person gets his > system going and responds.
A good example of this is the amateur satellites. You might fire an email off to someone - "I heard you but you couldn't hear me" after the pass. I think you'd have a hard time describing that as anything other than a one-way radio communication, but I don't see where that would become illegal. Gordon 2M0YEQ _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
