Topband: The use of digital modes on 160 metres

[Eddy Swynar]

On 2012-09-19, at 10:42 AM, Tom W8JI wrote:

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> That report is amazing and disturbing at the same time. It appears we now have a system that pre-establishes the callsigns and QSO information, cannot actually decode the information without the data being pre-established, and we now have stooped to a level where we claim this allows valid contacts.
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> Why would the ARRL or anyone else want or accept QSO's via that mode, when minimal information was not actually being transferred?


Hi Tom et al,

Welcome to the digital age...

What with hundreds of so-called "friends" on venues like facebook.com, this was surely the next step, & merely reflects a growing (deplorable) trend...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ