I find it rather amazing that 99% of the posts on ROS, and any other new data mode, are related to its legality in the US. How did you end up with such restrictive amateur licensing practices that experimentation with any new ideas is almost regulated away? Or worries the users that they make be flung in prison for transmitting them :-)
I seem to recall exactly the same arguments about PSK31 when it started. Why not make representations to your licensing people to relax the rather ludicrous (to us, anyway) restrictions on signal bandwidths versus data rates and let amateurs look after their own bands. Legislate-out what is really bad, not legislate-in just what a committee thinks is reasonable on any given date. Modern HF data modes have to be wide if they are to withstand the ionosphere. Something military communications discovered decades ago. The UK, and probably most European, licences don't dictate modes and bandplanning, they leave that to amateurs themselves to police. The licence just limits frequency bands, power etc. to avoid problems with other users. Bandplans are not mandatory as far as licencing goes - although people who break them do fall-foul of the operating police sometimes ! Andy www.g4jnt.com --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KH6TY <kh...@...> wrote: > > Jose, > > We want to be able to use the mode on HF, but it is not our decision, > but our FCC's decision, for whatever reasons they currently think are > valid. Fortunately, it may work well on VHF and HF, so I plan to find out. > > 73 - Skip KH6TY > >
