Post #1873799
2026-02-22 08:20 UTC
@vk6flab @Ea5iyl I totally agree. There's no place in amateur radio for closed source protocols. It goes against all amateur radio stands for.
That doesn't mean we can't have closed source implementations of course and I happily use a mixture of open and closed source software & hardware, but what we transmit on air must be in a format fully defined in freely available documentation.
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@G4IVV@mastodon.radio 2026-02-22 08:24
@vk6flab @Ea5iyl I particularly call out VARA with its pseudo open documentation. It describes some of the on air protocol but misses out key bit encoding so that no one else can implement it. Why do that, why try to pretend you are doing the right thing?