On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Bruce Perens <br...@perens.com> wrote: > U.S. Amateurs are allowed to transmit incidental music as part of repeating > NASA spacecraft communications. The rule says "space shuttle", but I'd > imagine that this is an error and other space vehicles are allowed.
When I first got the CELT codec (now part of OPUS), a codec for high quality low latency audio at bitrates ... well.. more suited for SHF... running over the air (via GNURADIO) I contemplated applying for a variance in order to do a concert with the orchestra split across town with the performers linked via amateur radio. One of the things that commercially available Internet does poorly is providing consistently very low latency and even paths within a city may get routed around the country if availability puts your sites on separate providers. With a SHF radio link, a low latency codec, and some relaying you could easily have latency for performers 30 miles apart as low as 30 feet apart. This is _much_ harder to do over the public internet. My though is that music is itself a valid form of human communication— and that the regs in this area are antiquated and are mostly intended to address broadcasting or non-communicative/interactive uses that would compete with the commercial services, and that there is no particular purpose or public interest in singling out music (and doubly so, for this and many other regulatory restrictions in the SHF and above space with is underutilized and well suited to spacial reuse thanks to directional antennas). I never got around to working out the details, too many other things to work on that don't require setting up antennas and coordinating with regulatory bodies! But I think if people want to experiment with this kind of thing they shouldn't be afraid of applying for the variances... and while codec2 is probably not a grand idea for satisfying music the point of having these things (and amateur radio itself) is experimentation and discovery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freetel-codec2 mailing list Freetel-codec2@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freetel-codec2
