On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote:

Hey, guys,

Someone here already said it, but nobody else got it, so I'll repeat it: SSB, or Single Sideband. It's commercial ham radio, if you will, and all the ships use it. I expect that you can shove anything down an SSB set that you want, including encrypted traffic.

Ham radio is a government nerd subsidy, and as such, doesn't do much but make more government funded/sactioned/approved/whatever nerds. :-).

SSB would do just fine. It's an international standard, after all, and probably not under the control of any one government, even.e

Do you need a license for that one? Can someone explain what exactly the sidebands are? It rings a bell and I used to know, but it's been around 15 years since I played with this kind of thing. It's just under the surface of my brain, but I just can't place it.