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--- 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:
-<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>
 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.
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-According to SCS, only minimal hardware is required to use PMON. The equipment complement includes a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (minimum) computer and a USB sound device. [...] The German company says PMON now makes this possible without a modem and adds the ability to decode B2F/LZHUF-compressed messages — Winlink email and others.</QUOTE>
+According to SCS, only minimal hardware is required to use PMON. The equipment complement includes a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (minimum) computer and a USB sound device. [...] The German company says PMON now makes this possible without a modem and adds the ability to decode B2F/LZHUF-compressed messages -- Winlink email and others.</QUOTE>
 Again, my personal view is that it's pretty cool that third parties are finally addressing this issue, but Winlink should be forced to offer this feature in their program so that everyone can monitor every winlink message they can hear on the air right out of the box.  --- //[[ve7hzf@rbox.me|Patrick, VE7HZF]] 2019/10/17 07:23//