OPINION : An Obsession with Capacitors

OPINION : An Obsession with Capacitors

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OPINION : New Rule Petition Seeks to Ensure “amateur digital mode transparency”

OPINION : New Rule Petition Seeks to Ensure “amateur digital mode transparency”

About a week ago, the FCC announced that it is accepting comments on a Petition for Rule Making (RM-11831) that seeks to change the rules to require that all digital transmissions use techniques “whose technical characteristics have been documented publicly.” Filed by Ron Kolarik, K0IDT, the petition expresses concerns that some currently used digital modes are not readily and freely able to be decoded, and it asks the FCC to require all digital codes to use protocols that “can be monitored in [their] entirety by third parties with freely available, open-source software,” per §97.113(a)(4).

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