Kit Rhett AultmanFCC 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
kb@roadriverrail feel free to infodump to me about what this means kjlsadfjkl
@donkeyblam okay, so the HF bands allow for global propagation of signals to propagate globally without infrastructure. I can reach New Zealand from Atlanta with 100W output. But there was a rule that digital communication had a hard limit of 300 baud regardless of bandwidth used. The FCC changed the rules to 2.8 kHz bandwidth overall regardless of effective baud rate, opening the door for all kinds of experimentation.
@donkeyblam Like, imagine being able to send a file halfway around the world at slow-but-tolerable speed. And anyone with an antenna, radio, and laptop could get it. They might be on solar power and miles from "civilization" and still get it.