--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Wright <hfradio...@...> wrote: > > http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/03/04/11377/?nc=1
Quoted: The ARRL supports -- as one of the basic purposes of Amateur Radio -- the experimentation and advancing the technical skills of operators. The development and use of any new mode is exciting to many amateurs, and the League encourage amateurs to experiment within the parameters of the rules; however, the ARRL also reminds US licensees that according to Section 97.307, spread spectrum communications are only permissible in the US on frequencies above 222 MHz. Uhm, it looks like the same declaration Pontius Pilate (see i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_pilate) released to the community 2010 years ago. Similar things occurred to Giordano Bruno, a phylosopher which has been evaporated in a public pyre some centuries ago by our local institutions. Of course we need to regulate the access to our bands. But should we need to comply with rules that has been written tens years ago? What forbid us to take on our shoulder the weight of experimenting something more modern than a RTTY technology which is based on what has been experimented almost one century ago? Are we cows? Should we not exploit the knowledges which matured in these last years? Should we be constrained to collect vacuum tube receivers and show them proudly to our retired friends? Should we ignore that a HF channel is a smart object with its delay and doppler spread. What kind of experiments could we do if we are allowed to make experiments which pretend we are still in the '60s? How could we claim that the amateur radio service could bring innovation in communications if we are not allowed to test our ideas? Questions. I'm just asking myself these simple questions. I'd be sad if they hurt someone sensitivity. That's not my scope. I'm just trying to imagine our future. 73s Nico / IV3NWV
