One other related thought. With the recent changes to Part 97, I believe that it is now legal to send an analog or digital image transmission in the text data portion of the bands with signals that are no wider than 500 Hz.
73, Rick, KV9U Leigh L Klotz, Jr. wrote: > Yes, absolutely. Fax is legal only in the phone band. I even confused > myself! > I don't want to hazard a guess why Hellschreiber, which faxes pictures > of characters, is used in the data band and now the phone/image band. > Leigh/WA5ZNU > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 8:35 am, kv9u wrote: > >> Leigh, >> >> This is the exact opposite of my understanding of Part 97 rules. >> >> Fax is specifically what is permitted in the phone bands. Hell modes >> were kind of borderline modes since they were similar to CW in some >> respects. >> >> Upon further reading of Part 97 wouldn't you consider facsimile as >> "image"? Thus, any areas that image can be transmitted are also legal >> for facsimile (FAX). >> >> 73, >> >> Rick, KV9U >> >>
