<div dir="auto">Yes, both were patented technologies.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Most every modern radio has a lot of licensed intellectual property, from microprocessors to modulator circuits to displays ...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 21:09 Nick Kartsioukas <<a href="mailto:nick@explodinglemur.org">nick@explodinglemur.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">As for FM and SSB, I may be missing something in their history, was there a time when an amateur radio operator was legally prohibited from developing their own SSB or FM modulator or demodulator without paying a licensing fee to some entity?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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