[Gslug-general] Wireless & Linux

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:59:05PM -0800, Michael_Faraday wrote:
>   Currently, I have only a technician+-class license. What I've heard on
>   HF doesn't give me the slightest motivation to get a general-class
>   license. Packet under Linux could be a different story.

I thought you only needed a General if you were going to do CW, that
everything else was legal under the Tech class?  

I've always liked the idea of packet radio; the one issue I have with it at
the moment is that encryption is _nekulturny_ by amateurs.... they don't
give a rat if I pringles-can my (obLinux) WRT54GL and encrypt the crap out
of it, but if I'm going to take the trouble to actually learn why and how
the darn thing works and get the license for it, I have to send everything
in the clear.   

Phooey.

(And I watered this down twice before hitting send... :}

-- Glenn