On 2/09/2017 7:19 AM, K7VE - John wrote:
Personally, I think our rules are over restrictive and should be modified,
Maybe we need to look at two variants of some devices (should be easier these days) - one that meets US specs, and an "international spec" device, so the rest of the world can push further. Maybe someone at ARRL or otherwise in a position of influence will then see the US is falling behind and campaign for more modern regulations. So many times, new idea that are perfectly legal in most of the world get squashed by US regulations that are irrelevant to the rest of us.
but not ignored. I also believe our patent laws grant patents for many things that should not be patented, but if there is a patent, we should follow the law or get the law changed, or fight a particular patent in court.
Patent law is a mess, but yes, we should respect those laws and try and effect legal change, or use alternatives. AMBE(X) is a particular pain, because of the need to hang a piece of hardware off something to encode or decode these formats. Not very useful for those of us who run on virtual servers. At least I now have a 100/40 connection, so there's scope for running data between here and the main server, for applications like an xlxd transcoder.