Well, the FCC says, that if you need to encrypt them buy a commercial business band license... makes the price of hardware go up by 3X.. I think you could encrypt for quite a while before someone cought you... but I wont risk it BTW, I found a company making a TNC that on 1.2GHZ you get 256Kbps I'm finding more info...... On Sun, 31 May 1998, Mark Lenigan wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 1998, Jesse Montrose wrote: > > > Someone (you?) mentioned earlier that you are not allowed to encrypt any > > transmissions either. The packet radio idea is intriguing, but I wouldn't > > be willing (or even allowed, with some email/source code) to do everything > > in cleartext. > > > > Is there no way around that? The FCC mandates that all packet radio > > transmissions be unencrypted? That sounds ridiculous :) > > > > I was talking to my Dad, who is a Ham operator, and he said > that the FCC rule against encryption was implemented during World War II > as one more means of catching German spies in the US. He also said that > it probably hasn't been challenged since it was put in place. > Is it possible that this rule could be struck down, with all of > the recent emphasis on freedom of speech and privacy issues (eg. the CDA, > PGP, the Clipper Chip...)? Alternatively, what about convincing the FCC > to "re-zone" a new amateur band that allows encryption, etc? > > ____________ _________ ________ __ __ > / _______ / / ___ / / ___ / / / / / > _/ / __ / / _/ / /_ / / / /_ /_ / /__/ /_ > / / /_/ / / / /____/ / / /____/ / / ____ / > / / / / / _____ / / _____ / / / / / > /__/ /_/ /__/ /_/ /_/ /__/ /_/ /__/ > >
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