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Technology Enthusiast Boosts Skills with Amateur Radio:
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Tech Enthusiasts Sacrifice Abilities w/ Ham Radio
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by K4RAF on November 23, 2009
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"He added that the medium can be used to experiment with megahertz of free bandwidth, which is available to broadcast any signal as long as the sender has an amateur radio licence."
Oh no you can't:
ANY signal? Try it & watch the Legal-Beagles show up in mass to tell you "you CAN'T do that!"
It comes down to a basic choice: Do you want to be a ham operator or do you want to be technologically progressive? The 2 are no longer 1 in the same...
Hint: You can DO MORE WITHOUT a license, than with one...
Raf
PS: The charade of keeping MHz's of UNUSED bandwidth are coming to an end. Just wait...
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RE: Tech Enthusiasts Sacrifice Abilities w/ Ham Radio
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by N4CQR on November 24, 2009
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Suggestion! Turn yours in, and as I have said before, sell your equipment if you have any, avoid eHam, QRZed as well as all amateur radio sites.
Forget amateur radio exists and get on with your life. Stop letting this bother you some deeply and emotionally.
Craig
@Hint: You can DO MORE WITHOUT a license, than with one...@
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RE: Tech Enthusiasts Sacrifice Abilities w/ Ham Ra
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by K4RAF on November 25, 2009
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Honestly, I worked damn hard to pass my licenses before the FCC outsourced the credibility of its' testing standards to amateurs (literally). I earned both my licenses fair & square by hard work, not VEC question pool fluff.
Your assertion that someone should turn in your license because of amateurs' ineffectiveness at keeping pace within 20 years of defacto technology is absurd. This underlines exactly the attitude that has lead to such a gap. The gap is pretty wide between current reality & the 1200 baud AFSK 1970's FAX/AX.25 standard Mayberry ham radio. Progress is no longer welcome, when everything around us in wireless is moving forward?
I can not emphasize enough the many missed opportunities to actually MAKE A DIFFERENCE in communications by utilizing any devices/methods/ that ALREADY USE amateur frequencies! Cameras, weather stations & remote control of devices are happening around us, on our frequencies, yet there is no current legal ability to do it under Part 97 amateur radio. So why would I put a callsign on an Access Point carrying a Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera stream so legal beagles can attack what I am doing with it, when I can use an SSID that is transparent to said legal beagle idiocy?
The rules need to be changed, to allow video, VoIP & SMS use at the very least. Instead, people like you are just happy with your blinder mentality that doesn't look around you & wonder why 'they' can do that kind of cool stuff but we can't/won't?
I will continue to deploy cameras & other devices/applications without using them under Part 97. I just don't need the hassle...or want it really. I have never needed an amplifier on any Part 15 application. That is mainly due to good, sound engineering of links & multipoint deployments. If you need an amplifier on Part 15, you don't need to be on Part 15. Move away from the radio, you're in over your head!
The current state of Part 97 "digital" [circa 2009] is just plain stupid... Same exact frequencies... Surrender them rather than utilize them? Yet you actually expect to maintain 'Primary" allocation status for 97 spectrum? LOL, Plain Stupid IMHO...
Raf
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