Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mouton.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mouton!karn From: karn@mouton.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: RE: Accessing computers via ham bands Message-ID: <190@mouton.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 13:01:34 EDT Article-I.D.: mouton.190 Posted: Tue Oct 23 13:01:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Oct-84 04:26:29 EDT References: <990@hplabs.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 28 Regarding the legality of using ham radio to access your computer, this would be a problem only if it was a "business use" of amateur radio. As long as you're not doing work for which you are paid (or facilitating a company's business), use of packet radio for remote computer access is not only legal, it is encouraged. At this stage of the game, it certainly falls under "advancing the state of radio technology", something that the vast majority of (American, at least) amateurs seem uninterested in as proven by their reaction to the no-code docket. Here is a quote from 97.69: "...an amateur radio communication may include digital codes which represent alphanumeric characters, analogue measurements or other information. These digital codes may be used for such communications as (but not limited to) radio teleprinter, voice, facsimile, television, models and other objects, transference of computer programs or direct computer-to-computer communcations, and communications in various types of data networks (including so-called "packet switching" systems); provided that such digital codes are not intended to obscure the meaning of, but are only to facilitate, the communications..." [goes on to describe transmission standards] The only remaining legal grey area has to do with whether amateur packet stations can be unattended. We have at least temporaily avoided this problem by considering them to be repeaters (by placing them within the repeater segments) and then using the "automatic control" repeater provisions. 73, Phil