LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION as they used to say. There in Europe, you have dozens of "local" governments to satisify, in the way of modes and power, bands, etc. Im always supprised to find two governments over there, who agree with anything another two may want to do on the bands. Over the years, that has somewhat worked its way out of the tangle. Then, while we here have sub-bands, you usually do not, and that causes problems here, with modes being broadcast on top of other incompatable operation:, where we are limited to specific band-widths etc. Even here, we have Canada, and the South Americans that we find working band/modes that we cannot reach, but little vice versa. Our Canadian friends usually try to stay out of our cw bands, with their SSB signals, but not all of them. Hopefully, we still are the land of the free - after all, we elect the leadership that puts the FCC commissioners in the job. NO - that doesnt always work out too well either!
Danny Douglas N7DC ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB All 2 years or more (except Novice). Short stints at: DA/PA/SU/HZ/7X/DU CR9/7Y/KH7/5A/GW/GM/F Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred, I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for those who do. Moderator DXandTALK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DXandTalk Digital_modes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digital_modes/?yguid=341090159 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Ackrill To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ROS, legal in USA? Dave wrote: > Jose (and all), > > My two-cents worth: > > Olivia is MFSK (or AMFSK), ROS is Spread Spectrum. MFSK is legal on HF, SS is not. > > It isn't about bandwidth or any of the other arguments. Since ROS is Spread Spectrum then it is not allowed on HF in areas regulated by the FCC under the current rules. Skip is correct here and Andy is right to be concerned. So, American Radio Amateurs are, now, more restricted than other Radio Amateurs in the world? Forgive me. Ever since I was a CBer the USA seemed to have less restrictive laws compared to here in the UK and now we've had more allocated bands than in the US and less restrictive modes than in the US. The land of the free? LOL Sorry, I couldn't resist this after all the years of being told that I was living under an oppressive government. Dave (G0DJA)
