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63	63	I am a Radio Amateur, with callsign K6BP. Ham radio was the first Internet, actually a steampunk Internet with spark transmitters and electron tubes at the start, and has had a tradition of open innovation and sharing of designs since the 1910's. So, it's fitting that I approached Linux and Open Source because I was trying to make software for radio hams.
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65		-I was founder of No-Code International, which lobbied for the end of Morse Code examinations as a criteria for ham radio licensing. This required that we modify a treaty of the International Telecommunications Union (a UN organization) to allow all of the member nations to remove their Morse Code requirements. We were successful, and as far as I am aware all nations other than Russia removed their Morse Code requirements. This resulted in an increase of licensed Radio Amateurs in the United States, with the result that more people actually use Morse Code on the air today than any time since voice and text replaced the manual telegraph. So, everybody won. We also headed off what looked like the impending death of Amateur Radio as members aged out and the ranks of hams diminished. Today I remain active on Amateur Radio policy. Here's my most recent [[chat on Ham Radio Now>>url:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVqzs4HA59w]].
	65	+I was founder of //No-Code International//, which lobbied for the end of Morse Code examinations as a criteria for ham radio licensing. This required that we modify a treaty of the International Telecommunications Union (a UN organization) to allow all of the member nations to remove their Morse Code requirements. We were successful, and as far as I am aware all nations other than Russia removed their Morse Code requirements. This resulted in an increase of licensed Radio Amateurs in the United States, with the result that more people actually use Morse Code on the air today than any time since voice and text replaced the manual telegraph. So, everybody won. We also headed off what looked like the impending death of Amateur Radio as members aged out and the ranks of hams diminished. Today I remain active on Amateur Radio policy. Here's my most recent [[chat on Ham Radio Now>>url:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVqzs4HA59w]].
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67	67	I have been active in evangelizing Open Source digital voice communications, founding the [[Codec2 project>>url:http://www.rowetel.com/?page_id=452]] and recruiting the main developer. Today, we have an Open Source voice codec that can use as little as 700 bits per second, and our [[FreeDV>>url:https://freedv.org/]] delivers good quality voice using as little as 1.2 KHz of bandwidth on HF radio, using both an Open Source codec and Open Source softmodem.
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