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Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system

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From: JimP
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:44
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:00:56 -0700, Peter Flass
<peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11 Feb 2018 10:49:36 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-02-10, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [22 lines snipped]
>>> 
>>>> I love Number Stations. No idea what their purpose is today, just loving
>>>> them. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Could put up my own station, announcing random numbers. Having some three
>>>> letter agencies wasting their time investigating. *g*
>>> 
>>> *laugh8 What a marvellous idea!!!
>>> 
>>> I've a radio amatuer licence - I wonder what the authorities would think
>>> of a synthesised voice announcing random 5 letter groups?
>> 
>> In the U.S., which I know you aren't here, its illegal for cryptic
>> coded messages to be sent by ham radio operators.
>> 
>> Saw an argument about this on a ham radio forum. Was digital 'plain
>> speech' ? What about CW ? etc. I just ignored it except for randomly
>> reading one or two posts.
>
>Surprised they're still arguing this. Digital packet radio has been around
>"forever", based on the AlohaNet. The KA9Q tcp/ip package was developed, as
>the name suggests for ham radio.

Some ham radio forums just talk and help, other ham radio forums like
to argue over nothing.

They were arguing over FT8, PSK31, etc.
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From: JimP <solo...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 08:44:47 -0600
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