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Article #620557Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:30
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:30
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On 11/02/2018 14:44, JimP wrote: > 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. > The first and only real digital mode is hand-keyed Morse.
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