On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, solarwind wrote: > "obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive > messages, signals or identification." > > You gotta be kidding me, right? I read through those links. I couldn't > believe what I was reading. > > I think the better question to ask is, what CAN we transmit? > I suggest you to build or buy a receiver (and definitely _not_ a transmitter), and start listening conversations. You will see that amateurs are concentrating on few things. Some people do not build radio, they buy of those, so they just want to make challenges, like a contact (QSO) to a remote site, or see how is the reception in different weather conditions etc. Some others are do building stuff and they would like to see how good is that, how can they improve, what others build and how and how can they adopt thos things on their station etc. This is where I thought would fit to you, however, I might be wrong. And again, HAM it is _not_ for commercial purpose, including remote controllers! I have never heard of any HAM channel that would be used for RC operation, only CW, RTTY, SSTV, pocket radio etc but all of these are concentrating on the radio station only and the communication protocol, which if you like is pointless. It is like understanding what is the point of skiing? Going up and down and in the meanwhile you are not carrying anything, so what's the point? :-) Why would you build a radio for not using it for a good? :-) I think I can't say anything more than that if you are interested on building radio station, then you should just go for HAM. If you are interested only on RC, then you should simply just buy a remote. Do not just build a transmitter for any frequency, as it then can make noise on other frequencies as well! So maybe it is legal to use CB channels at a certain dB, if your station is not measured and approved by FCC then it is still illegal. Maybe you can build an RC transmitter on RC frequencies, but then again, you need that approval, and also the max power is very limited including antenna used etc. It is very hard to get a job designing and playing with high power radio transmitters, so weather you like it or not HAM is the only reasonable way to do it with all the rules and regulations you need to follow (like it or not). I think I am off from this subject now, because I just can't add anything more. Thanks, Tamas -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s="int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=%s%s%s, q=%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q="\"",s,q,q,a="\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist