>>It's a requirement of the new EBS replacement!
>Cynical as I am, the fact that the government is allowed to
>do something doesn't tell me it's legal for citizens. :-)
Well, broadcasters do, for many purposes, have the status of
super-citizens. In today's FCC, all you need to do is have
enough cash in hand and you can get the government to sell you
whatever chunk of radio/microwave spectrum you decide are
necessary. It doesn't matter that the new services stomp all
over bands that were previously reserved for medical equipment
or radio astronomy - after all, what does it matter whether
>I seem to remember something about tone encoding/decoding
>being illegal within citizen's band radio, for example.
In shared bandwidth applications, modes that can obliterate
existing services usually are tightly regulated.
There's also the matter of "encrypted transmissions", too.
For example, the ARRL had a special waiver written into FCC Part 97
that allows them to send 5-character Morse Code groups solely for the
purpose of practice. And when I got started in RTTY, only Baudot
transmissions were allowed on the ham bands - ASCII wasn't an approved
encoding until a few years later.
>The new system is called EAS (Emergency Alerting System),
>replacing the old EBS.
Thank you! I knew the EBS replacement wasn't called EBS anymore, but
I couldn't quite remember what it was called.
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Received on Thu Dec 10 1998 - 14:10:07 GMT