aoeuasdf · HackerTrans

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

If the transmission consists of <CALLSIGN><ENCRYPTED PAYLOAD> then there is no way to determine if the payload is commercial in nature. One particular example is business owners using amateur radio spectrum for business communications. Or some wise-guy using amateur spectrum for his high frequency trading to beat the speed of copper.

aoeuasdf

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

>illegal to transmit encrypted data over the air

This restriction comes up quite a lot in discussions about "modernizing" ham radio. I predict that if encryption was universally allowed, the ham bands would quickly become saturated with encrypted channels as hobbyists and not-hobbyists start using the bands for their personal communications networks.

The two main problems with allowing encryption are that 1. The HF bands often have worldwide propagation with very low power levels, which turns local interference into national or international interference, and 2. With encrypted communications it would be impossible to enforce other amateur radio laws, such as forbidding commercial uses.

I think that allowing encryption on dedicated slices of the UHF bands would be a more realistic approach.

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