_______________________________________________________________________ Message: 17 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:15:58 -0800 From: "Dr. Howard S. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:
Like most US Hams.. I am about as confused about the current regulatory situation as you are... We constantly have to look over our shoulders to see if the latest digital mode is legal....yes... we could publish some documentation about the protocol on a web site to disclose it... and if I were the author of the protocol.. I might be able to do that...by taking a hour or two or three from my development time to do that.... But what if someone in Europe writes a new Olivia style protocol... lets call it FRED....and sends me a copy of FRED as the first US Ham to play with it... well to be legal ... I would have to figure out the protocols which would be difficult without source code or source information... do up a web site and publish the protocols BEFORE I could play with it... AND lets say FRED includes Video and Images and FAX and AM and FSK and FM in FRED...Now I have to read regulation books to see if FRED is legal or not... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/ELTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to telnet://208.15.25.196/ Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ Looking for digital mode software? Check the quick commerical free link below http://www.obriensweb.com/digimodes.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
