Bob Bruninga wrote: >> cultural change for AMSAT. Voice communications would no longer be >> the primary motivation or justification for a project; it would >> merely be a nice side-effect. > > I believe the number 1 thing we should be working on is "Universal > Amateur Radio Text Messaging". The goal is to be able to text > message any ham anywhere, anytime using any device using only his > call. > > I have counted over TWO dozen existing text messaging capabilities in > Ham radio and the problem is, that few of them are cross connected or > integrated, yet we could do it easily if we just took it on as the > big picture! > > See www.aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html > > APRS has had the above local and global terrestrial and satellite > text messaging between mobiles and handhelds for over a decade
Even if we endorse the view of universal messaging APRS should not be the underlying protocol. Rather then bolt something on to an OSI layer 4 (-ish) protocol, lets approach this with no preconceptions and start fresh. Heck, if we want to reuse something, let's tear a page from Cisco's book and implement something that does IP since almost everything except my toaster speaks IP. Anything else relegates our hobby to the digital stone age. ACP is a good step in the right direction. The fact that it understands that bits are bits and doesn't give a hoot about what's on top of it allows us to get back into relevance again. </rant> -- Ben Jackson - N1WBV - New Bedford, MA bbj <at> innismir.net - http://www.innismir.net/ _______________________________________________ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
