It's contrary to the rules. Many of you haven't filled out an FCC Form 610 (and probably don't know that it's almost always an NCVEC Form 605) so probably have no idea that when you apply for a licen
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So what you are saying is that people can no longer whine about it being "too hard"! :-) Nice work (seriously). I have, Three times. Clever people could actually look up what I said about restructuri
Apologies if this gets covered in subsequent posts -- I put off digging into these threads until the holiday break (hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving!). I find a lot of the folks that attend thes
Just some sort of computing device (which may well be "free") but it also requires payment of a monthly fee to a provider. For ever. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! _______
Above 30 MHz, go for it. The problem is below that point. I wonder, though, if there is actually a situation where spreadsheets of information can be gathered yet comms are still down. -- Peter Laws
Call it "de facto encrypted". In the world above 50 MHz, there are similar issues. The D-STAR *protocol* is open but the voice is encoded and decoded by a proprietary algorithm in a DVSI chip. The sa
This is a link (that will probably break) that should take you to the most current version of 47 CFR 97. http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=9417e52ab593090eb4f9a10459aa77e1&node=47:5.0.1.1.6&rg
The original post made me look up the bandwidth, too, on my now out of production IC746Pro and it's 2.8 kHz on SSB Phone. "2.2 kHz is too narrow!" Kidding. Carry on. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws pla
I'm sure 2.8 kHz (or wider!) is common on current rigs but regardless, we need to limit the bandwidth SOMEwhere and from the traffic here, 2.2 kHz seems a good place to stop. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY |
Is that the one entitled ``The American Radio Relay League Report of the ARRL Narrowband Study Committee 2010 Second Meeting''? If so, it's here: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee
I see the setup includes an Illudium Q-36 Modulator. Must have been noisy in there given the motor-generator and the TTYs themselves! -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! ______
Control link, eh? Are the sailors claiming that the station at the other end is controlling the remote station? Because if that's the case, then the person remotely controlling the distant station is
Here we go. "We need it for disasters!" Unlikely, but let's pretend. How long does it take to send a 1 kB message with the proprietary Pactor 3 protocol (or name your poison)? How long does it take t
Oh, me too! There are WAY too many wannabe law enforcement/firefighter/paramedic/dispatcher wannabes already who truly believe that when The Big One hits that all the public safety and commercial com
Interestingly, about 10 years ago, the ARC lovely Suburban-type vehicles with every imaginable radio, plus generators and appropriate antennas including satellite Saw one up in Illinois. Would *love*
Oooh, that would be bad. I only pick it up occasionally, but it's important for QST to have competition. The also publish Popular Communications. I'll ask my scanner buds. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | pla
I know little about the publishing biz, but I wonder if the digital issue is part of the problem? No advertising revenue, no magazine. That much I know. But the question is, do digital ads bring in a
Doesn't really mean anything until we hear what is going on. If they do fold, I hope another group takes up sponsorship of both the awards and the contests. -- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net |