[digitalradio] Re: encryption

2006-02-11 Thread kmeinken
Amateur radio can be very helpful in some emergency situations but I strongly feel that trying to turn ham radio into a substitute for commercial communications is a terrible move. If Red Cross or some gov't agency wants commercial grade communications, that's their problem. Note the words VOLU

Re: [digitalradio] Re: encryption

2006-01-25 Thread Harv Nelson
> These are dangerous times when enemies-without-borders > are bend upon our destruction and care not for their > own temporal well-being.  No point in making ourselves > easy targets. bullshit!! it is perfectly obious to me, that during ythe pst disaster dhs affiliates and tyheir minion

Re: [digitalradio] Re: encryption

2006-01-25 Thread Paul L Schmidt
kd4e wrote: >>2. during a declared emergency > > > And then only for specific purposes as requested by > a Homeland Security approved agency and properly > documented. > > One does not want to open the floodgates every time > there is a declared emergency somewhere. > > We have to remember tha

[digitalradio] Re: encryption

2006-01-25 Thread kd4e
> Dave Bernstein wrote: > After discussing this offline with Walt K5YFW, I would say that > encryption on the amateur bands should only be permitted in two > specific circumstances: > > 1. to control a remote device (e.g. a satellite) Carefully documented -- I believe a FCC required log of all

[digitalradio] Re: encryption

2006-01-25 Thread Dave Bernstein
After discussing this offline with Walt K5YFW, I would say that encryption on the amateur bands should only be permitted in two specific circumstances: 1. to control a remote device (e.g. a satellite) 2. during a declared emergency 73, Dave, AA6YQ --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.co