Re: LF: ROS 503.600kHz beacon

[Andy Talbot <andy.g4jnt@googlemail.com>]

How is any mode 'illegal' - apart from in the US where their national organisation seems to have self regulated thenselves to extremes.

 

ROS is not a "Secret Code or Cipher", its decodable by off-the shelf software without having to enter any secret password.

 

If teh author chooses to not publish the details, that just opens up bad feeling, and a desire to hack it.  Come on any GCHQ/NSA type people out there.    It can't be too difficult to reverse engineer with your techniques.:-)

 

Andy
www.g4jnt.com

On 2 May 2010 20:33, Jacek Lipkowski <sq5bpf@lipkowski.org> wrote:

On Sun, 2 May 2010, mal hamilton wrote:

That applies to most EU countries and the UK. This mode is illegal and a good way to terminate a licence.
Those using it are at RISK.

exactly my thoughts. if everyone rejected this mode on grounds that this is illegal, the author would be forced to either publish the specs, or to loose testing of his software by hams.

actually maybe this is the authors plot - let hams test the software for a while, and then sell it to some commercial customer (probably not military, but mine communications perhaps?)

VY 73

Jacek / SQ5BPF