8 Jul
2013
8 Jul
'13
3:46 p.m.
Greetings,
On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Marius Petrescu wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
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I can only subscribe to Michaels statements.
Let's be realistic: our current infrastructure is obsolete at best and we
make insufficient use of what we have because of high speed internet.
As Tom Clark W3IWI said a couple decades ago with regard to Packet
Radio...
"The trouble with Packet Radio is the RADIO"
Let's not oppose the internet. Let's use it.
And I reiterate the idea:
A cloud setup on ampr addresses for ampr users only.
Connection modes and means are irelevant. Tunnels, ax25 links, whatever you
want...
But this can work on existent infrastructure, use the internet fully (by
encapsulation), be limited to hams only (e.g. by means of src address
filtering) and raise no issuses about cryptology and other stuff.
And it would be an encentive for other hams to join the ampr network (over
internet if they like...).
That is what we do here in Michigan. We have had as many as 22
"HamGates" deployed throughout the state, all interlinked using IPIP Encap
(Protocol-4) through the Internet. Some nodes hung off other nodes where
necessary, so did not have "fully meshed" routing. A few others were hung
off Hamgates via RF only. But the vast majority of longer-range
connctivity was via Internet encap routes.
It is all Catch-22, as they will not come and join the network unless
there is already a network worth connecting to. As in Field of Dreams -
If you build it, they will come...
--- Jay WB8TKL
o Chair, ARRL Michigan Section "Digital Radio Group" (DRG)
[www.mi-drg.org]