Protocols should be published, and encryption has no place on the
amateur bands.
Requiring automatic digital mode stations to periodically ID in CW
wouldn't be a bad idea either.
We should not, however, be limited to protocols implementable with
software running on a Windows PC with a soundcard just because
that's what most digital operators happen to use.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "palmdalesteve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> > Clever, Steve, but demonization is counterproductive. If Winlink
> > were to implement effective "listen before transmit", its
operators
> > should enjoy the same access to amateur spectrum as any other
ham.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Dave, AA6YQ
>
> So are you saying that JAMTOR IV should release enough information
so
> that others can build software based decoders for our traffic,
thereby
> insuring that it open for all to see the traffic and insure it is
not
> being used for commercial purposes, which rightly belong on
commercial
> frequencies, also making our operations patently illegal?
>
> OK...Right after other proprietary modes in use do so.
>
> Or maybe we can limit our bandwidth to something like 1 KHz or
> something like that?
>
> Or maybe listen before we transmit?
>
> I'm all for that stuff in JAMTOR IV, right after others implement
it.
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
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