jim writes: > Look I'm not saying we shouldn't volunteer. However, beware strangers > bearing gifts and all that. I don't know how old you are but you > appear to have a bias against us older folks. To be clear: my "old fart" comment is in reference to a mindset and behavior, not any individual's age. I have my share of gray, been licensed not quite 30 years. Born before the 60's hit.
But if I was to do a black box analysis of the "ham radio system", it'd be hard not to conclude that HF is populated solely by cranky, bitter, and rude men. :-) Not the curmudgeon patina earned by our vintage members. :-) > Let someone older and > wiser tell you it would be very unusual for government money to come > with no strings attached. Strings that can be pulled sometime. For > instance, should a serious recession or god forbid a depression come > around, you can bet that "sunk" investment will look mighty good for > day to day use. All I'm saying is that what might happen might not be > the best for ham radio. > Back to circular argument number 15 from QRZ...... most agencies (and certainly hospitals) cannot send their non-emergency traffic via ham radio methods. We are a very weak & limited fallback. But still the "one eyed man" So I personally believe the risk of being annexed because we put reserve coax, antennas, and maybe even radios in agencies is very small. But back to digital radio.... I've got an idea to stack 3 psk signals together side by side and run in a normal SSB radio. Multiplex the data across the multiple psk paths. I think that would be legal, and technically possible. No restriction I see on multiple transmissions with different data streams. Any single signal meets symbol rate & bandwidth fcc restrictions even as proposed by the new petition. Might could even do 4! Or maybe do the same with Pactor 1 to get ARQ, already looking at the linux source. Kind of like the fsk/afsk debate. Is it a different mode if you can't tell the signal's apart remotely? Turing test for radio. That's what I'll move to if we ban the wider data modes. Think it will work? Have fun, Alan
