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From: stephany.WBST@XEROX.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: "hams" vs. "hackers" -- vote request
Message-ID: <12741@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 13:23:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 13:23:00 1984
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You are right:  I only meant that what goes over the air is Radio and
not computers.  The FCC is only concerned with what is on the air not
where it comes from.  computers are not radio.  thats all I meant.

The FCC has refused to give digital licenses because what goes over the
air is the same (with a few parameter changes).  They will not licese a
form of communications in which the source of data is mechanized.  The
FCC would be licesing where you get the data instead of what goes over
the air.  Since the FCC does not licese sources of data, it refuses to
licese different sources that use the same modulating techniques as
separate licenses.

				Joe  N2XS