John wrote: > Thanks Jose ...... > > Now with that cleared up, can you make those corrections / re-definitions to > your distributed documentation to reflect that it is indeed FSK rather than > spread spectrum? That little detail from you, the author of the program, is > what is causing such an uproar that is eliminating the use of your program on > HF frequencies here in the USA.
Oh dear, John, If you think that the people that oppose this in your country will just roll over now that Jose has made a statement that ROS is no longer Spread Spectrum, then I think that you are in for a bad surprise... In all my Amateur Radio life I have come to realise that some Radio Amateurs are intent on telling other Radio Amateurs what they (the others) can and cannot do. ROS has stirred up the 'You cannot do that' crowd and they have gained a victory in getting someone to say that it is illegal. The idea that Jose now says that it isn't what it was that he said it was originally will cut no ice with them, if I am any judge of the politics of Amateur Radio. The cry of 'It's illegal, it's immoral, or it makes you fat' has been raised and taken up by certain people who 'know best' what you all need to do in the USA. Now they have 1st blood in that it seems that 'someone' has come out and said it is illegal (whether or not they have the authority to say that is immaterial, someone with referent power has said it) and now you are on the defensive in trying to say that it was all a big mistake, Jose never meant to say what he said and it's all legal, honest... Until the UK licence was effectively deregulated, we used to get these debates all the time. In fact we still get them when people don't read the new conditions and refer back to old conditions, but that's just because it takes a while for some people to realise that the rules have changed. Dave (G0DJA)
