[Gslug-general] linux and amateur radio

[Donald G]

technician privileges on the low bands is only CW.  The reason many people like myself went to general then advanced (and now extra) was for the phone priviledges.  
Check the very bottom of this web site for tech priviledges and you will see that techs have only CW below 30 Mhz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_allocations

As far as encryption, there really shouldn't be any reason to use it over amateur radio.   The type of conversation that normally takes place is "Hi, how are you?  what is your weather like?"  just friendly chit chat.
see the purpose of amateur radio here
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/

I have always thought that the two camps were sort of separate.  That is that while amateurs used computers, they were only used as a sideline (computers did their job transparently in the background).    In computers, however, I rarely if ever heard about how computers benefited the radio service.   I would advise doing work in packet if you want to combine linux and amateur radio.

As for me, I have always enjoyed the art of radio, and only recently, taken a heavy interest in putting radio and computers together (especially with linux)

Donald
writing from Beijing China


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
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