Subj : Re: Packet BBS?
To   : Reverend Shaft
From : echicken
Date : Sun Oct 06 2024 01:40 am

  Re: Re: Packet BBS?
  By: Reverend Shaft to echicken on Sat Oct 05 2024 18:15:40

 RS> I haven't seen anything new. Have any links to share?

Not off hand; the two I mentioned ("new packet radio" and VARA) were just the ones that immediately sprung to mind. There was some chatter online about stuff in general when the symbol rate was changed (lifted?) in the US, but I suppose it will take a bit of time.

 RS> But if it's a data protocol... You are flying your bank account balance in
 RS> the face of the whole purpose of amateur radio.

Yeah, it stinks, and I wish people wouldn't dignify this stuff by using it. I can see the temptation though. I suppose someone could reverse engineer it, but usually that leads to hacky stuff done for legal reasons. (I can use a certain digital voice codec from an app on my phone, but only after I downloaded some mystery blob containing the necessary code, from a link in some forum. The app author is insulated, and so presumably is the (same?) person who made said blob.)

 RS> I'm 100% on board with that. I've had some high level thoughts and ideas
 RS> to make more effective use of the available bandwidth, but I'm genuinely
 RS> afraid someone will be like, "Dude, you know how sound and radio work,

I'm pretty out of touch with all of this stuff myself, having not much opportunity to be involved with the hobby for a number of years. I have zero relevant ideas myself at the moment and probably won't until I get back into the swing of things ... someday.

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