Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-28 Thread Roger J. Buffington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Very, very, few hams have the slightest interest in e-mail over ham > radio. The great majority do not even want it! You got that right. Right now Pactor is merely a low-budget way for RVers and boaters to send email over the ham bands. I see no benefit whatever

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
> > Can see no valid reason for encryption on our frequencies. If one > could provide an single example I would be interested.. You're right. Not needed at all. We can do anything with Part 15 equipment and rules all using unlimited encryption such as streaming music, downloading "highly ar

[digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread Bill McLaughlin
Can see no valid reason for encryption on our frequencies. If one could provide an single example I would be interested.. 73 Bill N9DSJ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If it was really child's play, it would have been done several years > ago. I too use

[digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread N6CRR
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If it was really child's play, it would have been done several years > ago. I too used to think that this could be done Not if the makers of Pactor III don't release information about the coding scheme. As to encryption or not, w

[digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread Bill McLaughlin
Easy answer$$$ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "N6CRR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" > wrote: > > > > > ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition > > Good why don't they resubmit with a new regulatory standard that no > pr

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread mrfarm
If it was really child's play, it would have been done several years ago. I too used to think that this could be done, even if current OS's were not adequate for ARQ modes with that kind of timing. My understanding is that some have tried to do it but not succeeded. The Winlink 2000 folks (Winl

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread mrfarm
Danny is right on target on this. Loss of hard earned privileges is not going to be well received, especially those of us who worked hard to pass our exams, including 20 wpm at an FCC testing site. I am not very pleased with the "gain" of voice on 80 meters, but the loss of a huge segment of te

[digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread N6CRR
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick > > Pactor II and especially III are claimed to be difficult to nearly > impossible to decode with software. Even if you have a P3 modem and > monitor some of these transmissions, it is no guarantee that you can > decode the

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread mrfarm
The ARRL promoted the use of digital modes and that includes Pactor modes which have been with us for two decades now. The Winlink 2000 system, and the earlier systems, such as Winlink and Netlink (somewhat with Aplink), all used proprietary systems of Pactor and Clover II. Clover II support wa

Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread Danny Douglas
Message - From: "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:57 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile > > ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition >

[digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread N6CRR
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition Good why don't they resubmit with a new regulatory standard that no proprietary waveforms will be allowed to operate on any Amateur radio frequency? If you wa

[digitalradio] Re: ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition, Plans to Refile

2007-04-27 Thread expeditionradio
> ARRL Withdraws "Regulation by Bandwidth" Petition Although this might delay USA hams' release from Technology Jail, perhaps it will lead to the development of a better bandwidth-based spectrum management plan, without the need for "AM phone loophole contortions", ridiculously narrow 200Hz bandw