At 10:02 AM 9/1/2009, you wrote:
>This was the crux of the beginning of this thread. > >One, is D-STAR legal below 29 mHz. in the US (it appears to be based >on its characteristics and the regulations) Well, remember the important secondary question... "Where?". I don't have to deal with "appears to be", I can say with certainty that for me, it would be legal to fire up D-STAR on any ham band from 160m up. ;) >Two, lets encourage manufacturers to not artificially disable it in >D-STAR capable HF rigs based on pre-conceived ideas. Agree there, manufacturers should be able to let the users decide. Afterall, they've been enabling 16 kHz wide FM (5 kHz deviation) for years on HF boxes on all bands. Over here, that mode is not legal below 28 MHz (it exceeds the 8 kHz bandwidth limit we have on 160 - 12m). I suspect a similar story in the US (though for different regulatory reasons ;) ). >Three, if it is not disabled, lets experiment and find out what it can do. Well, only thing stopping me is the money required, otherwise I'd be in there giving it a whirl. :) 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
