We can definitely see SSB on our waterfall. And it interferes with us somewhat. This isn't like the ultra-narrow slow digital modes like WSPR or PSK31 where you might not have to care about another station on the frequency. So, I think our operators would generally avoid it.

I have a surface mount workstation at home. I've been cheering on Chris Testa, whose mobile SDR design is mostly surface mount. He did run into problems with a module socket that was awful to solder.

Oops. Thanks for the typo.

We have had other spread-spectrum rule-makings lately. If you want to experiment with it on HF you should apply for a Special Testing Authority. The problem is, as you obviously already know, getting the existing HF operators to live with it. I didn't specifically address SS, but the bands with wide bandwidth or "Not Specified" can obviously handle it. I thought the document was ambitious enough without talking about spread spectrum.

CSMA doesn't work that well on HF. Sometimes you should be able to share a frequency with distant operators even though they fade in and out, etc. However, it makes sense if you are doing automatic link establishment.

Hi Roscoe,

I want to have my opinions heard. And having notoriety helps. So I do not shy from self-promotion. But the point here is to get people interested in what I wrote, rather than just me.

It might be different if the purpose was just to sell my stuff. This is a non-profit activity.

irst the proposal claims to promote "paperwork reduction" while installing a whole new crazy array of complicated regs ON TOP OF the existing overall rules for reasonable and prudent and good engineering practice and emergency traffic priority or WTF the exact phrases.

You may have been confused by the stuff in the right-hand side of the big table. That's all existing FCC rules. I just moved them to where they'd be seen, instead of having them live in a list of footnotes as in the current Part 97.

If we are going to have unattended traffic, there needs to at least be a ham-adminstered band-plan to keep it in a subband. Nobody wins if unattended traffic is a big HF band user in non-emergency operations.

Thanks

Bruce

A great many hams are lawyers. This has some interesting uses for our project, since codecs are one of the more litigious areas of technology. A pile-on defense is actually helpful, since the other side is generally trying to make you broke while you defend yourself. We can turn that around in the Free Software tradition.

And of course it helps with spectrum defense. But there is also an ARRL Spectrum Defense fund to which you are encouraged to donate.

Time to think about college choices...

How does this account for all the people committing suicide in Finland? There aren't many cheap chinese food places there

Finns in general have an asian genetic admixture. So, their food is chinese :-) . They also culturally drink incredible amounts of coffee. And there are cultural differences, including a stoicism that may lead to people getting less help for emotional issues. But perhaps the biggest issue is:

It's dark there. For much of the winter. People are sensitive to light.