<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">Ham radio digital modes petition RM-11831 in EE Times</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Theodore Rappaport N9NB</strong> writes about the digital modes petition <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">RM-11831</strong> in <em style="box-sizing:border-box">EE Times </em>(Electronic Engineering Times) an electronics industry magazine<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">RM-11831 asks the FCC to require all digital codes to use protocols that “can be monitored in [their] entirety by third parties with freely available, open-source software,” per §97.113(a)(4).<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The proposal if implemented could lead to the banning of many amateur data and voice modes that are not formally Open Source. <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">N9NB starts his article by citing the Engineers&#39; creed adopted by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1954 and calls for the engineering community to write to the FCC, to file comments in favor of RM-11831.</p>He believes banning digital modes that aren&#39;t Open Source &quot;is a vital prerequisite to attract young hams who can participate in the hobby and grow up with values comparable to the engineer&#39;s creed.&quot;<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the article by Theodore Rappaport N9NB at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&amp;doc_id=1334565" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&amp;doc_id=1334565#</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Petition seeks to limit Digital Modes to open-source software <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/april/petition-seeks-to-limit-digital-modes-to-open-source-software.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/april/petition-seeks-to-limit-digital-modes-to-open-source-software.htm</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Digital Modes Petition RM-11831 generates debate <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/april/digital-modes-petition-rm-11831-generates-debate.htm" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/april/digital-modes-petition-rm-11831-generates-debate.htm</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>