<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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. <br>Check the very bottom of this web site for tech priviledges and you will see that techs have only CW below 30 Mhz.<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_allocations<br><br>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.<br>see the purpose of amateur radio here<br>http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/news/part97/<br><br>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.<br><br>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)<br><br>Donald<br>writing from Beijing China<br><br><br>On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:59:05PM -0800, Michael_Faraday wrote:<br>> Currently, I have only a technician+-class license. What I've heard on<br>> HF doesn't give me the slightest motivation to get a general-class<br>> license. Packet under Linux could be a different story.<br><br>I thought you only needed a General if you were going to do CW, that<br>everything else was legal under the Tech class? <br><br>I've
always liked the idea of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1225775526_18">packet radio</span>; the one issue I have with it at<br>the moment is that encryption is _nekulturny_ by amateurs.... they don't<br>give a rat if I pringles-can my (obLinux) WRT54GL and encrypt the crap out<br>of it, but if I'm going to take the trouble to actually learn why and how<br>the darn thing works and get the license for it, I have to send everything<br>in the clear. <br><br>Phooey.<br><br>(And I watered this down twice before hitting send... :}<br><br>-- Glenn</td></tr></table>