From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
On 10/31/2012 03:34 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I thought encryption and commercial messages were strictly verboten
on HAM stuff.
They are. So let's not encrypt stuff. And how much commercial data
flows across HECnet? ;)
I'd be much more concerned about the rules on swearing! I'd violate that
in a more or less continuous stream if I didn't know what I was typing was
going over the air...
This is a wonderfully bad idea -- I love it. Somewhere I have an old
DUP11 that I picked up 20+ years ago with the idea of using it for packet.
The AX.25 spec and a kit-built Flesher TU1200 are around here somewhere too ...
I really wish I'd moved on that project back when there would have been people
to talk to! (TNCs came along about ten seconds after I lost interest, natch -
all the name "Kantronics" means to me is the Rockhound!)
John Wilson, KC1P
D Bit
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 11/01/2012 11:56 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:44 PM, "Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
There are mountains...that'd be tough.
Bigger tower :-)
We can borrow some of the ideas from AT&T Long Lines and have our own hobbyist telecom grid. I mean, it's the next logical step right? Know anyone with large fibre or copper spools laying around? ;)
We can do this.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Currently the longest run for WiFi happens to be around the distance
from the hills somewhere inside Clark County NV to about the hills
somewhere by Salt Lake Utah. But I'm not sure what was used.
Oh and look into how the return to Mars prior to the group we've got
up there now accomplished its work.
Oh and Dave all of them used the shower.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 11/01/2012 11:56 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:44 PM, "Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
There are mountains...that'd be tough.
Bigger tower :-)
We can borrow some of the ideas from AT&T Long Lines and have our own hobbyist telecom grid. I mean, it's the next logical step right? Know anyone with large fibre or copper spools laying around? ;)
We can do this.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:44 PM, "Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
There are mountains...that'd be tough.
Bigger tower :-)
We can borrow some of the ideas from AT&T Long Lines and have our own hobbyist telecom grid. I mean, it's the next logical step right? Know anyone with large fibre or copper spools laying around? ;)
Bob
On 11/01/2012 11:44 PM, Bob Armstrong wrote:
There are mountains...that'd be tough.
Bigger tower :-)
I like the way you think. :)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
And licenses. ;)
It's pretty easy to pass the test, especially for technician. I'm a VE
(that's "volunteer examiner") and we run regular testing sessions here in
Silicon Valley twice a month. Almost everybody who comes in to take the
technician test passes - even little kids :-)
Bob WU6V
On 11/01/2012 11:35 PM, Bob Armstrong wrote:
We'd probably use DDCMP to get it to the async level, right?
Maybe. I know that AX.25 has a protocol ID byte that specifies the packet
type being piggybacked - I'm pretty sure IP is 0xCC. It might be that
someone has already implemented a DECnet payload, but it's a long shot.
I doubt it. We could, though.
We could build our own TNCs that spoke 1200/9600 baud AX.25 on one side
and DDCMP on the other. All it really takes is some firmware... That'd be a
really cool gizmo, and completely useless to anyone except for a couple of
people to boot :-)
I would LOVE to do that. That sounds like great gobs of fun.
Realistically, a smarter thing might be to try WiFi. I think the current
distance record for WiFi is something like 250 miles; how far is between you
and Steve?? Of course, you'll need some pretty tall towers...
I don't know specifically where he is, but I think he's east of me.
There are mountains...that'd be tough.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 11/01/2012 11:40 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
We'd probably use DDCMP to get it to the async level, right?
Maybe. I know that AX.25 has a protocol ID byte that specifies the packet
type being piggybacked - I'm pretty sure IP is 0xCC. It might be that
someone has already implemented a DECnet payload, but it's a long shot.
We could build our own TNCs that spoke 1200/9600 baud AX.25 on one side
and DDCMP on the other. All it really takes is some firmware... That'd be a
really cool gizmo, and completely useless to anyone except for a couple of
people to boot :-)
Realistically, a smarter thing might be to try WiFi. I think the current
distance record for WiFi is something like 250 miles; how far is between you
and Steve?? Of course, you'll need some pretty tall towers
And licenses. ;)
Well, get studyin'!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:35 PM, "Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
We'd probably use DDCMP to get it to the async level, right?
Maybe. I know that AX.25 has a protocol ID byte that specifies the packet
type being piggybacked - I'm pretty sure IP is 0xCC. It might be that
someone has already implemented a DECnet payload, but it's a long shot.
We could build our own TNCs that spoke 1200/9600 baud AX.25 on one side
and DDCMP on the other. All it really takes is some firmware... That'd be a
really cool gizmo, and completely useless to anyone except for a couple of
people to boot :-)
Realistically, a smarter thing might be to try WiFi. I think the current
distance record for WiFi is something like 250 miles; how far is between you
and Steve?? Of course, you'll need some pretty tall towers
And licenses. ;)
Bob
