How to make better ham radio rules?
-2002-10-27
+2003-10-26
-Notice: Folks, here I am going to discuss some
-rule'n'regulation issues that we, radio amateurs, every day
-face to. These problems make rather significant obstacles
-for this nice way of communication to be more developed
-and widely used.
+Notice: Gentle folks, here I am going to discuss some
+rules'n'regulations issues that we, radio amateurs, face to
+every day. These problems make rather significant obstacles
+for this nice alternative way of communication to be more
+developed and more widely used.
First of all, anybody who might be interested in
@@ -3716,13 +3716,14 @@ HF waves, in a digital manner, has to learn
manual analog Morse telegraphy and
pass the similar manual Morse skill test. For a long
time now, I have been trying to explain myself, why manual
-Morse telegraphy is still being kept as the requirement
+Morse telegraphy is still being kept as the legal requirement
without an amateur is not allowed to use HF radio frequencies
-under 30 MHz, in order to contact other Linux and remaining
+under 30 MHz, in order to contact Linux and other remaining
digital radio amateurs world-wide. I still
-have no answer, except that all of those who have wasted lots
-of time learning Morse, now don't want to allow newcomers to
-use the same capabilities - without the same (useless) tests!
+have no answer to that question, except that all of those who
+have wasted lots of time learning Morse, now don't want to
+allow newcomers to use the same capabilities - but without
+the same (useless) test!
You all know, there are so many Linux enthusiasts world-wide
@@ -3737,115 +3738,119 @@ authorities to remove such outdated regulatory
principles, that make more and more obstacles for not
only Linux users, but for other kinds of computer users
- when it comes to the modern ICT technologies. I hope,
-all of you, readers of this mini-HOWTO, can now
-understand what does it mean to endlessly use outdated
-rules and regulations. For example, I often contact
-people from the academic world, students and scientists,
+all of you, readers of this mini-HOWTO, can understand
+now what does it mean to use outdated rules and regulations
+endlessly . For example, I often contact various people from
+the academic world, either students or scientists,
in order to motivate them to join amateur radio wireless
-activities. They mostly refuse to start with amateur
+activities. They mostly refuse to think about the amateur
(also called "ham") radio, as soon as they hear they
have to pass the Morse test, as the legal requirement
before they become allowed to connect to
-remote computing radio users world-wide, using the HF
-radio bands and devices. I am sure, the absence of
-those high educated people in the ham radio is one
-of the most negative consequences in ICT areas we face to.
+remote computing radio users world-wide, using
+the HF radio bands and devices.
+
+What I am sure, the absence of those high educated people within
+the digital ham radio is one of the most negative consequences in the
+ICT areas today!
-I have been thinking what to do, since early ninetees
+I have been thinking what to do since the early ninetees,
when I was the secretary of YU7 (Vojvodina
province in Serbia) amateur radio union. It seemed to
me that it was a very hard task to persuade the people who govern
the amateur radio organizations, to remove such outdated rule.
-When I realized that the removing the mandatory manual Morse
-test is almost impossible to be expected in a short period of time,
-I decided to suggest the implementation of
-another regulatory principle: To adopt a new type
-of amateur radio licenses, a Ham Digital
-Licence (the HDL in short). The HDL licensees
-would be allowed to use ALL amateur radio frequencies,
-including ALL international HF bands
-under 30 MHz. But, they rather should be allowed to use ONLY
-digital types of amateur activities, including the use of
-computers with LinFBB packet radio software. The HDL holders
-might use some dedicated radio transmitters, without
-the capability for both voice microphone and Morse key
-connections, in order to avoid possible misuse of
-unwanted amateur activities (like voice SSB operations).
+When I realized that removing the mandatory manual Morse
+test seemed to be almost impossible to be expected in a short period of
+time, I decided to suggest the implementation of another regulatory
+principle. It should be a major innovation: To make a new type of the
+amateur radio license, a Ham Digital Licence
+(the HDL in short). The HDL licensees would be allowed to use
+all amateur radio frequencies, including all
+international HF bands under 30 MHz. But, they rather should be allowed
+to use only digital sub-bands and types of the
+amateur radio emissions a.k.a. "modes", including the usage of computers,
+equipped with the LinFBB packet radio software. Besides that, the HDL
+holders may only use modified and/or dedicated radio transmitters,
+without the capability for both voice microphone and Morse key
+connections, in order to avoid possible misuse of unwanted amateur
+activities (like voice SSB operations).
-All HDL candidates would have to learn various topics like
-computer hardware and software in general (operating systems and
-system software configuration, amateur radio software setup etc),
-connecting amateur radio stations to the computers (connecting radio
-modems to the transmitters etc), building simple antennas (like 1/2 wave
-wire dipole for 20m I used long ago), English language (or German etc)
-in the written exam etc. The Morse requirement would not be used anymore,
+All HDL candidates should have to learn topics like computer hardware
+and software in general (operating systems and system software
+configuration, amateur radio software setup etc), connecting the amateur
+radio stations to the computers (connecting radio modems to the
+transmitters etc), building simple antennas (like 1/2 wave wire dipole for
+20m that I used long ago), the English language (or German etc) in the
+written exam etc. The Morse requirement would not be used anymore,
as well as some other obsolete tests, like highly complicated radio
circuits or skills needed for building home-brew radios from the scratch
-(instead of buying modern factory manufactured devices) etc. Of course,
-regulatory issues should also be tested (like band plans - in particular
-recognizing the sub-bands dedicated for digital ham radio),
-RFI issues and how to avoid them etc.
+(instead of buying modern factory manufactured devices). Of course,
+the regulatory issues should also be tested (like band plans - in particular
+recognizing the sub-bands dedicated for digital ham radio). Next
+are RFI issues and how to avoid them etc.
I believe that amateur radio digital
activities have their future only if we all do
our best to improve the regulatory principles that
govern this fine hobby. You should also know that,
-besides the telegraphy skill requirement for HF access,
-here in Serbia we have some further restrictions: we
-have all to be the members of the national amateur radio
-unions (SRV in YU7 province and SRS in Serbia in whole),
+besides the telegraphy skill requirement for an HF access,
+here in Serbia we have some further restrictions: we all
+have to be the members of the national amateur radio
+unions (SRV union in YU7 province and SRS union in Serbia in whole),
as the legal requirement, before we become allowed
to use any type of the amateur radio activities.
-Such a stupid rule does not exist elsewhere!
+Such a nonsense does not exist elsewhere!
-Should you want helping us to adopt internationally known
+Should you want help us to adopt internationally known
principles, that do NOT require to join any
-type of an amateur radio organizational system, i.e. an
+type of the amateur radio organizational system, i.e. the
amateur radio society (that only wants to get our membership
-money), you are invited to lobby for that. Our outdated
-amateur society leadership has their email address:
+money), you are invited to lobby for us. Our conservative
+amateur society leadership also has their email address:
yu0srj@eunet.yu (I suppose they may have more than
one email address, but you may try to use this one).
You may also use an Internet search engine and scan for
-more info related to "Savez radio amatera Jugoslavije",
-"Savez radio amatera Srbije", etc). Your valuable help would
-be highly appreciated. Case you need more info regarding
-these legal issues, do not hesitate to contact me too.
+information related to "Savez radio amatera Jugoslavije" and
+"Savez radio amatera Srbije". Your help would be highly
+appreciated. Case you need more info regarding our national
+legal issues, do not hesitate to contact me.
If you find yourself interested enough in making
-amateur radio rules and regulations better and
-updated (say to spread the idea of liberalize the
+amateur radio rules and regulations better and more
+updated (say to spread the idea of liberalize the whole
ICT areas and make them free of any kind of monopols),
I would suggest you to look for your national radio
amateur society and/or national telecommunication
regulatory agency (like FCC in the USA). Lobby to them
in order to remove the obsolete manual Morse proficiency
test. In addition, should you have some opportunities to
-attend to some ICT related science conferences or
-something like that, you are also invited to let me know of.
+attend to some ICT meetings and conferences or
+something like that, you are also invited to let me know.
Case we all do our best to remove obstacles mentioned above
-and allow the new people who may wish to enjoy the amateur
-radio digital and Linux-related operations to do so, the
-technology would become the part of more homes. I hope you,
-the readers, may help. So I look forward to hear from you soon!
+and allow the new people, who may wish to enjoy the amateur
+radio digital and Linux-related operations, to do so, the technology
+would become the part of more homes. I hope you, the readers,
+may help. So I look forward to hear from you soon!
Bibliography
-2003-10-06
+2003-10-26
Notice: Folks, I often visit some (inter)national
ICT conferences all around Serbia and Montenegro,
-submitting papers and having presentations. What I want
+submitting papers and having presentations. For example,
+here you may see standing and speaking to the audience. What I want
to do is to spread - as wide as possible - the basic idea
and the useful mission of the amateur radio hobby. You bet,
whenever possible I want my readers to make it with Linux.
@@ -3936,15 +3941,30 @@ combined!
- "Alternativne racunarske komunikacije putem radio-veza",
Info M, 6-7/2003.
+
+ - "Legal Rules and Regulations in the Amateur Radio Computer Networks",
+ proceedings, "22nd ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference",
+ Hartford, CT USA, 2003.
+
+Besides these articles published and papers presented, I have been
+studying for an M.Sc. degree in computing. I am also the member of
+the following associations: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications
+Society and ACM. In addition, I have been voluntarily working on establishing
+an academy computer network that would use the amateur radio
+stations as the media. Such networks exist somewhere else on the globe and
+I invite their administrators to contact me in order to cooperate.
+
Further information
Copyright
-Copyright (c) 2003 by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, YT7MPB.
+Copyright (c) 2003 by Miroslav
+ Skoric, YT7MPB.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
@@ -4199,3 +4219,7 @@ little annoying.
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/LILO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/LILO.sgml
index 5cffc41e..383a6757 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/LILO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/LILO.sgml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
LILO mini-HOWTO
Miroslav "Misko" Skoric,
v3.14, 2003-10-06
+v3.15, 2003-10-26
linux loader windows nt 2000 boot
LILO is the most used Bibliography
-2003-10-06
+2003-10-26
Notice: Folks, I often visit some (inter)national
ICT conferences all around Serbia and Montenegro,
-submitting papers and having presentations. What I want
+submitting papers and having presentations. For example,
+here you may see standing and speaking to the audience. What I want
to do is to spread - as wide as possible - the basic idea
and the useful mission of the amateur radio hobby. You bet,
whenever possible I want my readers to make it with Linux.
@@ -1065,15 +1067,30 @@ combined!
- "Alternativne racunarske komunikacije putem radio-veza",
Info M, 6-7/2003.
+
+ - "Legal Rules and Regulations in the Amateur Radio Computer Networks",
+ proceedings, "22nd ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference",
+ Hartford, CT USA, 2003.
+
+Besides these articles published and papers presented, I have been
+studying for an M.Sc. degree in computing. I am also the member of
+the following associations: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications
+Society and ACM. In addition, I have been voluntarily working on establishing
+an academy computer network that would use the amateur radio
+stations as the media. Such networks exist somewhere else on the globe and
+I invite their administrators to contact me in order to cooperate.
+
Further Information
Copyright
-Copyright (c) 2003 by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric.
+Copyright (c) 2003 by Miroslav
+ Skoric, YT7MPB.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
@@ -1321,3 +1338,7 @@ little annoying.
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linux+WinNT.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linux+WinNT.sgml
index 33880fe1..0741b5b3 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linux+WinNT.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Linux+WinNT.sgml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO
Miroslav "Misko" Skoric,
v2.14, 2003-10-06
+v2.15, 2003-10-26
linux loader windows nt 2000 boot laptop
This mini-HOWTO covers some ways on how to install both Linux
@@ -1010,11 +1010,13 @@ between these two operating systems (probably it will be also FAT).
Bibliography
-2003-10-06
+2003-10-26
Notice: Folks, I often visit some (inter)national
ICT conferences all around Serbia and Montenegro,
-submitting papers and having presentations. What I want
+submitting papers and having presentations. For example,
+here you may see standing and speaking to the audience. What I want
to do is to spread - as wide as possible - the basic idea
and the useful mission of the amateur radio hobby. You bet,
whenever possible I want my readers to make it with Linux.
@@ -1105,15 +1107,30 @@ combined!
- "Alternativne racunarske komunikacije putem radio-veza",
Info M, 6-7/2003.
+
+ - "Legal Rules and Regulations in the Amateur Radio Computer Networks",
+ proceedings, "22nd ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference",
+ Hartford, CT USA, 2003.
+
+Besides these articles published and papers presented, I have been
+studying for an M.Sc. degree in computing. I am also the member of
+the following associations: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications
+Society and ACM. In addition, I have been voluntarily working on establishing
+an academy computer network that would use the amateur radio
+stations as the media. Such networks exist somewhere else on the globe and
+I invite their administrators to contact me in order to cooperate.
+
Further information
Copyright
-Copyright (c) 2003 by Miroslav "Misko" Skoric.
+Copyright (c) 2003 by Miroslav
+ Skoric, YT7MPB.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any
@@ -1339,3 +1356,7 @@ little annoying.
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/User-Group-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/User-Group-HOWTO.sgml
index 893ceca5..9547157f 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/User-Group-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/User-Group-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Linux User Group HOWTO
-v1.7.2, 2003-10-22
+v1.7.3, 2003-11-01
The Linux User Group HOWTO is a guide to founding, maintaining, and
@@ -29,61 +29,35 @@ tiny to colossal:
- Diverse devices:
- ,
- ,
- ,
- ,
- ,
- Intel i960,
- ,
- ,
- Cyrix MediaGX (x86 core),
- ,
- ZF Micro ZFx86 (x86 core),
- Hitachi SH3/SH4 (SuperH:
-
- ),
-
- (StrongARM, XScale, ARM6, ARM7, ARM2, ARM250, ARM3i, ARM610,
- ARM710, ARM720T, ARM920T),
- Elan SC520 and SC300,
- Toshiba TMPR3912AU (MIPS),
- ,
- Motorola 68020-68040 -based VME boards and
- machines,
- as well as Cisco 2500, 3000, and 4000 series routers.
- - IA32 family: i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro,
+
+
- Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd. family (StrongARM SA-1110, XScale, ARM6, ARM7, ARM2, ARM250, ARM3i, ARM610, ARM710, ARM720T, ARM920T)
+ - Axis Communications ("CRIS" RISC architecture)
+ - Elan SC520 and SC300
+ - Fujitsu
+ - Hitachi series
+ - Intel i960
+ - Intel IA32-compatibles (Cyrix MediaGX, STMicroelectronics , ZF Micro ZFx86)
+ - Matsushita
+ - MIPS-compatibles (Toshiba , NEC series)
+ - Motorola 680x0-based machines (Motorola VMEbus boards, machines, and Motorola & CPUs, and Cisco 2500/3000/4000 series routers)
+ - Motorola embedded (including MPC / PowerQUICC I, II, III families)
+ - NEC
+ - Renesas Technology (formerly Hitachi) SH3/SH4 (SuperH: )
+ - Samsung
+
+
+ - Intel .
+ - Intel IA32 family: i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro,
Pentium II, Pentium III, Xeon, and Pentium IV processors,
as well as IA32 clones from AMD, Cyrix, VIA, IDT, Winchip,
NexGen, Transmeta, VIA C3 Ezra "CentaurHauls", and others.
- - Motorola/IBM : Most
- /
- /
- /
- ,
- ,
- and ).
- - Digital .
- - Intel .
- - Motorola :
+
- Intel/HP : Trillian/Itanium/Itanium2
+ - AMD family (including AMD Opteron)
+ - Motorola series (with MMU):
,
Amiga, Atari ST/TT/Medusa/Falcon, HP/Apollo Domain,
.
- - IA64 and similar:
- (including
- AMD Opteron), and
- .
- - Other RISC workstations: Most
-
- (SGI, Cobalt Qube,
+
- Motorola/IBM family: Most
+ (including G3/G4/G5) /
+ /
+ /
+ ,
+ ,
+ and IBM (AS/400, RS/6000).
+ - :
+ most SGI, Cobalt Qube,
,
- ),
- ,
- , and
- .
-
+ Sony , and many others
+ - DEC
+ - HP
+ - SPARC International
+ - Digital minicomputers and MicroVAXen
- Mainframes: and .
+ url="http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/index.shtml"> and
Note that some items listed were probably one-time forks, little or not
at all maintained since creation. On some of the rarer architectures,
may be more practical.
+(Soon, the port should be solid enough to
+serve as a compromise option, furnishing Linux userspace code on the
+highly portable NetBSD kernel.)
If seriously interested in the subject of Linux ports, please see also
, if only because
+url="http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html">, if only because
hardware support is more complex than just generic CPU functionality,
encompassing support for myriad bus variations and other subtle hardware
issues (especially for
@@ -534,8 +517,10 @@ During Linux's first decade, it gained some first-class journalistic
resources, which should not be neglected: The main monthly magazines
of longest standing are and (on-line). More recently, they've
-been joined by ,
+url="http://linuxgazette.net/"> (on-line; note new site). More recently,
+they've been joined by
+ (on-line),
+,
,
,
and .
@@ -623,6 +608,8 @@ Telltale signs that a questioner may need to be transitioned to consulting-based
with the apparent aim of not needing to learn technological
fundamentals.
- Asking the same questions (or ones closely related) repeatedly.
+
- Insisting on private assistance from helpers active in
+ public (Linux community) forums.
- Vague problem descriptions, or ones that change with time.
- Interrupting answers in order to ask additional questions
(suggesting lack of attention to the answers).
@@ -633,11 +620,12 @@ Telltale signs that a questioner may need to be transitioned to consulting-based
questions.
-In general, LUG members are especially delighted to help, on a volunteer basis, members
-who seem likely to participate in the Linux "gift culture" by picking up its body of lore
-and, in turn, perpetuating it by teaching others in their turn. Certainly, there's nothing
-wrong with having other priorities and values, but such folk may in some cases be best
-referred to paid assistance, as a better fit for their needs.
+In general, LUG members are especially delighted to help, on a volunteer
+basis, members who seem likely to participate in the Linux "gift
+culture" by picking up its body of lore and, in turn, perpetuating it
+by teaching others in their turn. Certainly, there's nothing wrong with
+having other priorities and values, but such folk may in some cases be
+best referred to paid assistance, as a better fit for their needs.
An additional observation that may or may not be useful, at this point:
There are things one may be willing to do for free, to assist others in the
@@ -1491,6 +1479,9 @@ and elections.
of charge.
- 1.7.1: Added a bunch more newly supported embedded CPUs.
- 1.7.2: Added more on processor support; furnished matching URLs. Added details about Linux in India, and Linux For You magazine. Expanded legal issues section.
+ - 1.7.3: Added mention of Debian GNU/NetBSD to the CPU ports
+section. Reorganised and further expanded the latter. Recorded Linux
+Gazette's move to new hosting. Added LinuxFocus.