Subj : Re: Digital Radio Amateur To : N1uro From : Vk3jed Date : Fri May 21 2021 09:13 am -=> On 05-20-21 07:31, N1uro wrote to Vk3jed <=- -=> Vk3jed wrote to N1uro <=- Vk> Yes, I didn't like the hub and spoke model they used for NPR. N1> Our packet group was supposed to get a demo of it. One guy even offered N1> to buy me a hub & spoke to play with! I sort of took that as an insult N1> as I can easily get my own if I were that interested in it. When you N1> consider for spoke B to get to spoke D it has to travel through Hub A N1> it just didn't make sense. Granted, the speeds were supposed to be N1> superior however my take is; if you can get digital radios to talk that N1> fast on NPR why not through regular packet like they do in say Germany? N1> They've been doing far more above 115,200 baud for ions. Our 1200 is N1> child's play to them and not even something they wish to visit via the N1> internet. You know it's bad then! Yes, the EU hams have been doing high speed AX.25 for decades. Impressive work there, but it never took off. Vk> No, I just conducted myself and kept my potential down. ;) N1> They make little blue pills to raise your potential Haha, sometimes you don't want a lightning rod, when things get too charged - *ZAP* :P .... Given my druthers, I'd druther not. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (21:1/109) .