On 8/13/07, W2AGN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone gets into such a high dudgeon about ESSB, but I see no one here > complaining about PACTOR III, which is a proprietary mode which takes up the > same bandwidth as a SSB signal, but is allowed in the "data" parts of the > bands, > INCLUDING 30M. Not only that, but it is employed by dozens of "robot" > stations, > whose purpose is to pass EMAIL on the Ham Bands. This is a lot more threat to > the bands than a few experimenters playing with ESSB, since the ARRL is > pushing > the email forwarding, or "Winlink," as the "be all, end all" of Emergency > Communications.
Many digimode enthusiasts do get annoyed about PACTOR robot stations. But mostly the digital modes each keep to different areas of the digital sub-band and there is not very much conflict - unless you're using some new mode somebody has just written a program for, in which case you aren't welcome anywhere. :) Excepting contests, there is not usually any trouble finding a clear frequency to operate on in the digital sub-bands. The number of phone users is probably orders of magnitude greater than the number of data users so the potential for trouble if a new wider band sort of phone catches on is far greater. -- Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com Ham-Directory: www.ham-directory.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
