[RTTY] ROS policeman on 14101

[G. E. Janssens]

It may not be legal in the USA; but some people are "getting away with it", 
like this one: http://www.qrz.com/db/wf9xjd

An ''experimental license" is all you need, apparently....

73,

Erik - K5WW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Hachadorian" <k6ll at arrl.net>
To: "RTTY reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:51 AM
Subject: [RTTY] ROS policeman on 14101


> During the BARTG, I encountered a loud unidentified jammer near
> 14101, who kept sending the RTTY macro, "This frequency is
> reserved for ROS."  I worked through the jamming for about 5
> minutes, and then moved.
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> I had never heard of ROS, so I did a little digging.  As best I
> can tell, ROS is a spread-spectrum mode that sounds like this:
> http://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/sounds/radio-ROS.wav
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> There certainly was no ROS that I could hear while I was on
> 14101, just the loud RTTY jammer.
>
> Apparently, ROS is not legal in the USA, but there are renegades
> who insist on operating that mode.  ROS ops have decided that
> 14101 is "their" frequency.  An ARRL/FCC statement regarding the
> illegality of operating ROS in the USA below 220 MHz is here:
> http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-reaffirms-statement-on-ros
>
> I don't have a solution for this conflict, but be aware that it
> exists, and there at least one vigilante guarding the frequency.
>
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> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, Arizona
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