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Re:Hacking Ham Radio for Texting by genewitch on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @08:48PM (#29261180)
Ft-8, jt-9, jt-65, and wspr all break the rules when on 60 meters.

No one cares...

You're only allowed to transmit square on center of the allotted channels, and, this is the important bit, one person at a time. All the modes that JT invented flat out ignore both rules for 60 meter transmissions.

I don't care, but I get sick of people telling me that my pactor modem is "illegal".

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Re:Hacking Ham Radio for Texting by detaro on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:55PM (#29261520)
60m in the US I guess, where it's a very restricted secondary use of a military band. That's quite a special case.

Also these modes being ok or not on 60m has nothing to do with the question I asked?

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Re:Hacking Ham Radio for Texting by genewitch on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:34AM (#29262624)
FT-8 has issues beyond what is or is not encoding that could be argued (and is) to be in violation of certain rules.
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