4 ms·
Ham radio is about communicating with others. How am I supposed to respond to your digital "CQ" if it's encrypted and I can't read it? There has not been any
by jlgaddis 11y ago
Ham radio is about communicating with others. How am I supposed to respond to your digital "CQ" if it's encrypted and I can't read it?
There has not been any movement in this area and I hope that there never is.
- adrianN 11y agoPrivate communication is a form of communication. Public key cryptography makes it relatively easy.
- unethical_ban 11y agoBut the whole point of amateur radio historically has been making contact with strangers and/or being welcoming to new people to the hobby. I'm a privacy zealot, but the spirit and discoverability of amateur radio would be diminished if all the traffic was just static. PERHAPS a small band could be allocated for secure comms experiments... but I don't know. Besides, wouldn't encrypted noise over the air be confusing to others? Wouldn't people just broadcast over each other?
- adrianN 11y agoThe internet allows for encrypted communication, yet you can talk to me, a stranger. Allowing encryption doesn't mean that all traffic necessarily needs to be encrypted.
- unethical_ban 11y agoDecentralized transmission with no easy attribution on a limited resource is different than posting to a central server via a virtually unlimited resource (the Internet).