Re:FCC will vote on plan to remove outdated amateur radio te...
by throw0101a on Saturday October 28, 2023 @05:17PM
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> I would also love to see some (not all) uhf band allow encryption.
I disagree: with a finite, shared resource like radio spectrum (and especially the amateur bands), I think it would be too easy for people to abuse if other folks couldn't inspect it.
As it stands, many find it annoying that PACTOR (as useful as it is) is able to keep hidden their proprietary encoding secret (though generally used on marine bands, which doesn't necessarily have the same open-ness restrictions):
I disagree: with a finite, shared resource like radio spectrum (and especially the amateur bands), I think it would be too easy for people to abuse if other folks couldn't inspect it.
As it stands, many find it annoying that PACTOR (as useful as it is) is able to keep hidden their proprietary encoding secret (though generally used on marine bands, which doesn't necessarily have the same open-ness restrictions):
* 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20386875
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACTOR
* https://www.bwsailing.com/bw/ssb-email-and-weather-made-easy...
* https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/PACTOR_IV