Hi HI Dave ...... Unfortunately, you may indeed be right.
As my posts on this topic speak for themselves, I never once stated either way if it was or was not legal. My question all along has been, did the law against the use of spread spectrum even apply in this case at all, based on what the program actually did, not what was claimed. As I read the FCC rules here in this country, the rule does NOT make a mode illegal because the author "claimed" it to be spread spectrum. It makes the "transmission" of spread spectrum signals on the HF amateur bands below 225-250 mhz. This program never did meet the test for making it actually spread spectrum other than the authors claim of it in his own documentation. Indeed, it is likely just a language barrier that is not all that uncommon. A simply translation issue should not really be labeled as egregious. As you imply, we will see how the nay say'ers fair in this. there are indeed those that can't bear to not be the ones in control of the crowd. Me, I really don't care one way or the other, but do prefer that real facts be discussed rather than conjured up arguments based on inapplicable rules. 73 sir John KE5HAM --- In [email protected], Dave Ackrill <dave.g0...@...> wrote: > > 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) >
