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| blog:2019-09-07:monitoring_winlink_messages [2021/06/05 12:46] – va7fi | blog:2019-09-07:monitoring_winlink_messages [2021/06/05 12:46] – va7fi |
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| Interestingly, Winlink's position is that only individual with "development skills" should be able to do this. They also have an online [[https://winlink.org/content/us_amateur_radio_message_viewer |Message Viewer]] but it only works for US callsigns, and it's not really what the debate is about anyways. And so, the petition to the FCC asks in part that: | Interestingly, Winlink's position is that only individual with "development skills" should be able to do this. They also have an online [[https://winlink.org/content/us_amateur_radio_message_viewer |Message Viewer]] but it only works for US callsigns, and it's not really what the debate is about anyways. And so, the petition to the FCC asks in part that: |
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| <qUOTE>The FCC should require all digital codes to use protocols that 'can be monitored in entirety by third parties with freely available, open-source software.'(([[https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/is-ham-radio-a-hobby-a-utilityor-both-a-battle-over-spectrum-heats-up |Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility... or Both? A Battle Over Spectrum Heats Up]], July 8, 2019))</QUOTE> | <QUOTE>The FCC should require all digital codes to use protocols that 'can be monitored in entirety by third parties with freely available, open-source software.'(([[https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/is-ham-radio-a-hobby-a-utilityor-both-a-battle-over-spectrum-heats-up |Is Ham Radio a Hobby, a Utility... or Both? A Battle Over Spectrum Heats Up]], July 8, 2019))</QUOTE> |
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| That sounds very reasonable. In principle, you can imagine that if a program like Winlink can easily decompress a message for one recipient, it could just as easily decompress all the messages it hears. It would simply be a matter of managing these messages in a way that is easy for the user to filter what is theirs and what isn't. | That sounds very reasonable. In principle, you can imagine that if a program like Winlink can easily decompress a message for one recipient, it could just as easily decompress all the messages it hears. It would simply be a matter of managing these messages in a way that is easy for the user to filter what is theirs and what isn't. |
