FCC DOES AWAY WITH BAUD LIMITS ON HF! OMG! I can't believe they finally did it! This is a huge, huge win for hobbyist digital radio communications. #hamradio
@roadriverrail @LambdaCalculus At last! 300 baud is fun for remembering my old BBS days, but not much else.
At 1200 baud you can actually reasonably read netnews! Or even run a whole dang visual editor like vi!
@cmdrmoto @LambdaCalculus It's been an *EXTREMELY* long time coming. The rule should always have been "do whatever you want, but sign your signals and keep it to a bandwidth comparable with SSB (e.g. 2.8 kHz)". We're free to experiment with the available bandwidth slot like we always should have been.
@roadriverrail @cmdrmoto @LambdaCalculus I agree, it would have made sense to do this when ASCII was made legal on ham bands, back in 1980 or so.
@benbradley @cmdrmoto @LambdaCalculus Very hard agree that it's decades past due.