If there were some party willing to set up a P3 modem with all traffic
decoded to a web page, I would contribute to purchase of the modem. I
suspect if everyone who complains about Pactor 3 here contributed $20 it
would just about buy one. The DXTuners people do this with Icom
receivers and it works out well for them.
73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 4:52 pm, N6CRR wrote:
> I was thinking about the whole conundrum of PactorIII the other day,
> well after getting clobbered by a PT III MB coming up in the middle of
> my QSO on 40 meters, I started to think about it, and thought you know
> what I need, I need a tool that lets me decode Pactor III
> transmissions. Let me look at who the operator of the Pactor III MBO
> is, and what the traffic is that is so important that one of those
> *()*&(*&*( machines can come up in the middle of an on going QSO, and
> what sort of very important traffic was being passed.
>
> Then I thought that I was too cheap to go out and buy a Pactor III
> modem just so I could play like I am an OO and report people to the
> FCC for using amateur frequencies for commercial means by monitoring
> Pactor III MBO's and forgot about it a bit. Then I got PO'd over the
> idot MBO that came up on top of my QSO, and realized that I had no way
> of telling who the idot MBO was.
>
> So thinking that I am cheap and at the same time thinking I'm PO'd
> about this, I thought well maybe if a group of people put up a bounty,
> a prize, staged a contest, what ever you want to call it for the first
> software developer who can come up with a stand alone Pactor III
> reception and decoding program, that would be just the ticket for me
> to find out who the jammers are behind the Pactor III system. Heck
> might even be able to look at some of the traffic which needs to be
> run over our scarce HF resources, and which we have all been assured
> is not commercial.
>
> Just imagine, every keyboard jockey running Fldigi, gMFSK, MixW, Multi
> PSK or one of the others out there firing up a program to monitor and
> report to the FCC any violations of the regulations of the Amateur
> service, like commercial use of amateur radio spectrum. Quite a vision
> of the future.
>
> So do you think the ARRL would sponsor this contest, or should a group
> of like minded amateurs pass the hat and start the contest?
>
> A random rant.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Announce your digital presence via our DX Cluster
> telnet://cluster.dynalias.org
>
> Our other groups:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnyar
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Omnibus97
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
