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Article #620565Re: 1963--nuclear weapon alarm system
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:28
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:28
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On 11/02/2018 14:09, Bob Eager wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:30:27 -0600, JimP wrote: > >> On 11 Feb 2018 10:49:36 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >>> 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. > > Clause 2.87 of the UK licence forbids use of encryption except under > certain exceptional circumstances. I guess you'd have to prove the groups > were random. > > And you still have to broadcast the callsign regularly. > But the licence does not prohibit encypherment. For those in the know, Morse is not a code, it is a cypher, and it was probably Vail, Morse's technician who derived it, and so it is not Morse Code, but Vail Cypher. Something was lost in the spirit of amateur radio when the requirement for new licensees to spend the first year on Morse (Wrongly called CW which was an improvement over Logarithmic Decrement) with a limit of 10W. A lot of recent so-called radio amateurs know nothing abiut the internals of their rigs, a bit like so-called computer scientists being completely clueless about the computer internals and being completely lost if not using Unix / Linux and C.
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