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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by edrxty on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:46PM (#38271934)
The secret is there's already tons of encrypted communications on the bands because of cheap chinese DMR radios that unlicensed teenagers use for airsoft and the like. It has yet to ruin ham radio and nobody has even noticed enough to attempt enforcement.
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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by pclmulqdq on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:49PM (#38271954)
Those radios are very low power, so they don't really get in anyone's way.
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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by edrxty on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:51PM (#38271973)
There are power limitations on spread spectrum emissions in some of the bands, you could have the same thing here.
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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by ianburrell on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:59PM (#38272038)
DMR isn’t encrypted. You can listen to them with any SDR. The voice codec is patented but well known. DMR itself is a standard.
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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by piperswe on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:57PM (#38272785)
DMR can be encrypted, and I know from experience that there are people (not me, but people) running encrypted DMR on ham bands.
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Re:ARRL Hails FCC Action to Remove Symbol Rate Restrictions by Johnythree on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:24PM (#38284330)
Occasional, random uses of encryption would not attract much interest.

But as soon as some company sets up an encrypted node in a location that will attract users, there will be much interest in what it's purpose is.

The whole point of the regulation is to make defying the regulations on a commercial scale a risky operation.

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