[Motorola] ZAPPER's reply.

[Kenton A. Hoover]

Secure ops in Part 97 are not a gray area. The only allowed uses of=20
encryption are for authentication or satellite control operations.

Whether violation of Part 97 should be considered a reason to kick someone=20
off the list is a different question.

--On Saturday, April 27, 2002 02.42 +0000 "Joseph L. Rossmiller"=20
<ag9y@macomb.com> wrote:

> Brad sent a reply to my first message.  It is attached below along with
> my reply to it.  How do you feel?  Should Brad be allowed back on the
> reflector or not?
>
> Joe - AG9Y
>
> ------------------------
>
> In response to you removing me from the list I feel it was a bad choice.
> I
> do NOT condone illegal operations on any band and furthermore I never
> stated
> that operations in secure mode were legal in fact I did state that it
> was a
> gray area.
>
> I feel your removal of me from the list is in error and would ask that
> you
> reinstate me to the subscriber list.
>
> Brad KA=D8SQO
>
> ------------------------
>
> Brad.
>
> A quote from your second post to the reflector.
>
> "Sure it's illegal as all get out"
>
> It is one thing to operate in an illegal manner by accident or
> ignorance.  It is
> another to willfully do so.  I fell your messages to the reflector
> promoting
> your use of the Motorola DES system on the amateur two meter band, and
> trying to
> recruit other to join you goes against the purpose of the reflector.
> Again a
> quote from one of your messages.
>
> "If anyone here is in the South MPLS area and can run DES, keyload
> 1466400146040
> into your radio with the remaining digits all zeros and try a check in
> on
> saturday nights around 1900 central."
>
> I am familiar with the Motorola DES system.  It requires a wider
> bandwidth than
> normal two meter FM operation.  It also has acceptable, but degraded
> audio
> quality.  Neither of these facts seems to me to be in accordance with
> good
> amateur practice.
>
> If you wish to appeal my decision to remove you from the Motorola list,
> please
> contact "Alan L. Waller" <k3tkj@qsl.net>.  He is the one who owns the
> system the
> reflector runs on.  If he feels you should be added back to the Motorola
> list, I
> will do so.
>
> Joe.
>
>
>
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