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UK Ham Radio Reg Plans To Drop 15 min Callsign Interval and Allow Encryption
First time accepted submitter product_bucket writes A consultation published by the UK Radio Regulator Ofcom seeks views on its plan to remove the mandatory 15 minute callsign identifier interval for amateur radio licensees. The regulator also intends to permit the use of encryption by a single volunteer emergency communications organization. The consultation is open until 20th October, and views are sought by interested parties.
You can now. Just stick to the allocated ISM bands (eg WiFi).
What you can't do now is build your own transmitter without a ham license. This obviously is to prevent interference to other services.
The philosophy is simple. License the Radio or License the Operator. The Amateur Operator has passed sufficient technical barrier to ensure that they won't do stupid things and cause interference.
There is one catch however. The Amateur License excluded commercial operations. To do that you need a commercial license.
The amateur license is primarily for self education.
Different modes are not encryption. That's like saying "hmmm i can only do sideband so that means i cant listen to AM". Crypto is not at all allowed on the ham bands and likely never will be. Phase Shift Keying is a mode of transmission and PSK31 is a standard that uses it. Also, WSJT isn't a mode, it is a program.
and its called Dstar, only way to "legally" decrypt it is to buy decryption module from DVSI or whole radio from Icom.
Dstar is a proprietary, patented and closed protocol using another patented and closed vocoder (ambe).
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