[Dxspider-support] Fwd: Spider Nodes used by ROS to auto-spot

[Brendan Minish]

On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:25 +0200, Kjell Jarl wrote:

> I wrote to the author asking changing the behaviour of the program, so 
> the user has to decide to spot - I am awaiting a response.

The author does not really 'do' dialogue so you may be waiting for a
while longer  

> I do not consider these spots or users illegal, but it is bad 
> advertising for this software.

It's cluster spam, the ROS software does not connect to the cluster to
use the spots in any way, it simply spots then disconnects, the primary
aim would appear to be to make the ROS software appear to be more widely
used than other digital modes.


> I think setting ROS as a badword at this stage will limit the 
> development of our hobby, it is the wrong way. What next mode or 
> propagation should be stopped?

I agree that setting a mode as a bad-word is not not a good way forward
however I do not this mode as a legitimate mode for use on amateur
radio. It's a completely undocumented proprietary mode and the only way
to operate the mode is to use the author's own application

In some jurisdictions it may be ok to use a mode the that is completely
undocumented, here In Ireland I suspect it would prove problematic with
our authorities, in any case it's not in my opinion a good direction for
amateur radio to move in, all our RF modes should be well enough
documented that others can develop hardware/software to support them.


> I rather await the author change the program.

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73
Brendan EI6IZ