And these comments were pointed to with some regularity by me and others. It was well thought out, and very helpful. TAPR did a great job with this.
If I had one disappointment, it was that individuals with leadership roles at the time in GnuRadio, who could have been severely impacted by this order, did not submit comments. Thank you TAPR! Bob John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > I don't want to take *anything* away from what Bob and Gerald did on > this subject -- they were clearly strong voices for The Right Thing, but > I'd like the record to show that TAPR was also a voice in this effort. > > TAPR was the only ham organization to file comments on the original > Cognitive Radio NPRM that challenged the FCC's proposals to limit fast > DAC chips and require hardware locks on ham SDR gear. While AMSAT and > ARRL both filed comments, neither of them addressed those points. We > made the argument that these restrictions would not only limit > experimentation, but they would also be unenforceable in practice. The > net result would be an unnecessary reduction in our ability to advance > the state of the radio art. > > I'm not a big horn-tooter, but TAPR has been focusing on SDR for a long > time now, and we'd like to think we've done some good :-). > > 73, > John > -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up." Hunter S. Thompson _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
