4 Aug
2021
4 Aug
'21
3:48 p.m.
Like you I learned *a lot* from watching the traces of AX.25 packet radio!
I got a lot of understanding about how those protocols work from it.
Of course today people still use APRS, and AX.25 is often used as a framing
protocol for satellite telemetry so you see it often mentioned in specifications
and being used on networks like SatNOGS.
I do not want to say "we should not use AX.25 anymore" but merely that
it isn't really the topic of this list, and never has been. So people reading
about networking and routing all the time and expecting more about AX.25
likely are in the wrong place here.
I fully agree: there are always new things to experiment and tinker, and
sometimes old things that can be brought alive again.
Rob
On 8/4/21 10:37 AM, Tony Langdon via 44Net wrote:
On 4/8/21 5:55 pm, Rob PE1CHL via 44Net wrote:
So, AX.25 packet radio is not our subject of
discussion (anymore). When you want
that, you probably have to look somewhere else. We are networking people, that use
amateur radio as a medium. Many of us have used AX.25 over voice radio at some time,
maybe we still have some APRS node, but voice-bandwidth AX.25 is mostly a thing of the
past for most of us.
Rob, I take an inclusive approach. I was there in the early
90s,
running IP over AX.25. For me, it brings back positive memories. I was
studying TCP/IP at university at the time, and I could go home the same
day and watch the protocols in action at a speed I could follow in real
time over packet radio.