Subj : Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (278)
To   : Dmitry Protasoff
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Mon Oct 07 2024 17:32:00

Hello Dmitry,

On Sunday October 06 2024 19:30, you wrote to me:

 MV>> Why can't you run the system at the location where you are?

 DP> Energy prices in the UK are too high and free space is very limited.

So you take the best of both worlds...

 DP> It's also no longer possible to get a home phone

Eh.. ?? You were talking about modem over Voip. That should work in the UK.

 DP> and CSD has been disabled on UK GSM networks.

CSD??

[..]

 MV>> VOIP is a senseless double conversion. You convert a digital
 MV>> signal to audio. And then you encode the audio to a digotal
 MV>> signal to transport it. At the other end you do the reverse. It
 MV>> is like sitting on a horse in a trailer that is towed by a car.
 MV>> It makes sense to do away with the horse and the trailer and just
 MV>> use the car to go from A to B.

 DP> It's like HAM radio. Makes little sense if you have mobile phonem but
 DP> it's still fun!

HAM radio keeps working if everything else breaks down. But I am not going to argue, it is true that cell phones have taken most of "the magic" out of amateur radio.  *1)

 DP>>> Too bad it's not possible to put multiple phone numbers in
 DP>>> Nodelist.. I don't know why The Founding Fathers never thougth
 DP>>> about this idea? It's so inconvenient.

 MV>> Inconvenient for who? In the POTS age there never was a need.

 DP> For me and my modem friends :)

You and your modem friends are just a small closed group. You can easely distribute a private list.

 MV>> lines were expensive and for most one line was enough. But in de
 MV>> POTS age every decent phone company had the option to make
 MV>> multiple lines reachable via one phone number.

 MV>> VOIP has that possibility too.

 DP> What if I want connections to different phone companies?

At the time of the founding fathers that was not an option. So of course they did not consider that.

 DP>>> It's not POTS, actually. One of the lines is from a GPON box, 2
 DP>>> are from GSM CSD, and the rest are from SIP. But it's still PSTN
 DP>>> (because of the E.164 numbers involved), just not POTS.

 MV>> Ok, it is not POTS, so it is not really going back to the roots.
 MV>> It is just emulating the roots...  ;-)

 DP> It's "good enough" emulation :) You won't notice much difference from
 DP> the software side.

If you say so... ;-)

Cheers, Michiel

*1) AKA PA0MMV, licensed 1964


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