8 Jul
2013
8 Jul
'13
4:48 p.m.
What I meant was to give an example of an "outbound traffic" application
since inbound traffic is controversial. You are of course right, that
upstream connections from the individual remote nodes are lower
frequency applications, but when aggregating towards the central
repository, the data volumes build up. I guess there must be other
outbound traffic applications of a similar nature where amateurs can be
useful, e.g densifiction of the grids of websdr, wspr, radio telescopes, etc
And after all, to allow both in and outbound traffic applications
between radioamateurs over the world is just a matter of putting proper
authentication and authorization mechanisms in place, right?.
I guess Echolink has accomplished that in a sense already although their
method is a bit too manual.
The academic world has accomplished this via grids, science gateways,
certification and Identity provider authourities, etc. Like eduroam,
edugain, etc.
Would that be a way to go?
On 07/08/2013 10:17 PM, Michael E. Fox - N6MEF wrote:
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Bjorn,
Same problem, at least here in the States. If I use ham frequencies to
transmit the data to a site that has Internet access, then that's fine. The
public access wouldn't use the ham frequencies. But we can't allow the
public to access the systems across amateur frequencies. That's not allowed
by our FCC rules.
Also, as you mention, I would think that collecting environmental monitoring
telemetry is a fairly low-bandwidth activity and the locations are usually
not places where you could or would want to put up a tower and dish, etc.
for clear line-of-site in the GHz range. I'm guessing that a lower power
VHF solution that's much more forgiving of line-of-site issues, much less
visually intrusive, and would probably make more sense for that application.
This discussion started with someone suggesting the use of the higher bands
to get higher bandwidths so we could drive more usage with better
applications. I'm all for it. But I'm hoping we can come up with what
those applications are.
Michael
N6MEF