expeditionradio wrote: > Respectfully, Roger, if you are one of the many who were jumping up > and down on the "PACTOR3 illegal" bandwagon, then it is certainly > time for you to eat crow. If you were not, then don't worry about it. > But, I do notice that the most vocal PACTOR-haters are conspicuously > silent right now for some reason. :) > > Bonnie KQ6XA
I do not notice that. I do reiterate that contrary to what you were reporting on this forum, the FCC has now made it plain that: a) the regs as originally promulgated, did make Pactor 3 and certain other modes illegal; and b) they are hopefully going to make modifications that will affect some modes such that these modes will be permitted. Your cheery email last weekend that "Pactor 3 is OK, etc." is therefore now proven to have been wrong. For all I know, automated modes lacking control ops, will remain illegal as many amateurs believe they should be. I used to run Pactor 1 and 2, and I still own a PTC-II modem. I now do not operate Pactor, because keyboard-to-keyboard Pactor qsos are essentially extinct, as far as I can tell. Most Pactor communications seem to consist of radio-to-internet messages from boaters. I do question whether this sort of traffic is really traditional amateur radio or appropriate for amateur radio. Many question this. It has nothing to do with whether anyone "hates" Pactor--as someone else recently posted, it is senseless to hate a mode. Disliking certain operating practices, i.e. someone who transmits without listening first to see if a channel is clear--that is something different. This practice is particularly destructive when it involves a wide band mode since obviously a wide band mode like Pactor 3 has the potential to interfere with more innocent stations than a narrow-band mode. de Roger W6VZV
