From: Mixmaster <mixmaster@remail.obscura.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:40:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: radio net
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote:

> 
> Hey, guys,
> 
> Someone here already said it, but nobody else got it, so I'll repeat it:
> SSB, or Single Sideband. It's commercial ham radio, if you will, and all
> the ships use it. I expect that you can shove anything down an SSB set that
> you want, including encrypted traffic.
> 
> Ham radio is a government nerd subsidy, and as such, doesn't do much but
> make more government funded/sactioned/approved/whatever nerds. :-).
> 
> SSB would do just fine. It's an international standard, after all, and
> probably not under the control of any one government, even.e

Do you need a license for that one? Can someone explain what exactly the
sidebands are? It rings a bell and I used to know, but it's been around 15
years since I played with this kind of thing. It's just under the surface
of my brain, but I just can't place it.