Just a quick addition to what Brendan said, all of which is correct to the best of my knowledge. The FCC has stated that ROS is not legal for US Amateurs to use. They say it violates the FCC band on amateur spread spectrum modes. The last time I looked there was a great deal of disagreement on whether not this was true, but for US amateurs that makes no difference. The Funny Cookie Company has spoken, and we must obey! :-)
73, Carl N8VZ ========================================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brendan Minish Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:06 AM To: Dave ve3wej Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dxbase] ROS On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 19:56 -0400, Dave ve3wej wrote: > just another new digital mode Not quite no.. ROS mode can only be done using the proprietary ROS software, there are no published specifications on the various ROS modes and all the development is being undertaken by one author who does not appear to hold an amateur radio licence or engage in much dialogue with the amateur radio community. The lack of published technical specifications is enough to make the legality of using the ROS modes very questionable in many jurisdictions. The reason we are seeing so very many spots for ROS is not because it's now far more popular than SSB but because most versions of the ROS software generates DXSPOTS for all QSO's (and pretty much everything heard too) automatically, without the user's knowledge or permission, using the user's call sign. It does this via means of a number of hard coded cluster nodes, the Author of the ROS software has never asked any of the DXcluster sysops if it's ok. The ROS software does not use spots AT ALL, the sole purpose of auto spotting everything appears to be to make the ROS mode look (much) more popular than it is. In other words Cluster spamming I attempt to filter out ROS spots on my cluster so if you want a (mostly) rosmode free dxcluster feed then you may try connecting to EI7MRE, it's in the Dxbase cluster list ei7mre.ath.cx port 7300 73 Brendan EI6IZ (sysop EI7MRE Dxcluster) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K2LS" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 7:07 PM > Subject: [Dxbase] ROS > > > > Well, > > > > Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.. > > > > I'm now seeing more ROS spots with ROS6 ROS 18 etc, in the text. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh > > > > > > 73 > > > > Larry > > > > DXC.K2LS.COM > > Spots from NA zones 1 - 8 Only > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > > signature database 5365 (20100813) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Dxbase mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- 73 Brendan EI6IZ ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
