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Francois..
Both you and Mike... totally miss the
point...
If I use SSB to say to you or a third
party....."How are you"...... that is OK with you..
But if I say it digitally, especially using
Winlink, it is NOT?
Why should the transport mechanism
matter?
Second.. Winlink only consumes 18KHz channel
capacity to send over 150,000 messages a month.. which is only a very tiny
portion of all the HF bands to send a huge volume of traffic.
So before you let yourselves succumb to the
hysteria of the Winlink Challenged...that digital modes are hijacking
international frequencies.. please look at the facts..
__________________________________________________________
Howard S.
White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6 ex-AE6SM KY6LA
"No Good Deed Goes
Unpunished"
Formerly "Awfully Extremely Six Sado Masochist"
"Krazy Yankee
Six Loves America"
Website: www.ky6la.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 4:34
AM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Win Link (NOW
Commercial and quasi commercial traffic)
Mike hits the point .
Ham radio is not an
American radio service limited to the borders of
the lower 48s
Canadian
regulation (Iknow third world countries don't count) but
nevertheless
Canadian Regs state that Ham communications should be "of
technical nature
or not warrant the use of commercial means"... in past
times autopatch on
the vhf was tollerated before de advent of cellular
phone... etc..
Sending traffic that could and should be sent on the net or phone
lines
should be reserved to the net and phonelines,,
And even if
ham radio can be of invaluable help in emergencies and
disasters
situations no one should "hijack" world wide international
requencies on
the pretention that a system mode or whatever is
prepairing 7 days a week
24 hours a day for some eventual local or
regional emergency...
And finaly who cares if 1% of stations carry 75% of illegetimate
trafic...
François VE2KV
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digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "kl7ar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I find the ongoing discussion about the technical issues
interesting.
> The point is that 99% of QSO's going on are person to
person be it
via
> SSB ,CW or the DIGI modes. Win Link is a mode
which should be used
> only for emergincy traffic in a designated
sub-band.The fact is the
> Win Link people want to use the Amatuer
spectrum to send their
> personal E mail traffic,just as traffic which
can go via a commercial
> carrier is illegal on the ham band so should
ALL personal Win Link
> traffic. If I were AOL I would ask the FCC to
shut Win Link down
since
> the traffic it handles can go via a
commercial carrier.
> 73's
> Mike
KL7AR
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