Actually, there are legacy RC operations on the 6M band, but most RC enthusiasts are up
on 2.4 GHz Spread Spectrum these days. Maybe that is the best place for the balloon ops, too.

Joe M.

 On Sat 03/04/10  9:14 PM , Tamas Rudnai tamas.rudnai@gmail.com sent:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, solarwind  arwind.x@gmail.com> 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
> weatherconditions etc. Some others are do building stuff and they would like to
> seehow good is that, how can they improve, what others build and how and
> howcan they adopt thos things on their station etc. This is where I
> thoughtwould 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
> RCoperation, 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
> pointof skiing? Going up and down and in the meanwhile you are
> not carrying anything, so what's the point? :-) Why would you build a
> radiofor 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
> justbuild a transmitter for any frequency, as it then can make noise on
> otherfrequencies as well! So maybe it is legal to use CB channels at a
> certaindB, if your station is not measured and approved by FCC then it is
> stillillegal. Maybe you can build an RC transmitter on RC frequencies, but
> thenagain, 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
> radiotransmitters, so weather you like it or not HAM is the only reasonable
> wayto do it with all the rules and regulations you need to follow (like it
> ornot).
> 
> I think I am off from this subject now, because I just can't add
> anythingmore.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tamas
> 
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