I'm not super-educated on this particular subject yet, so take me with
a grain of salt here.
So for various reasons, Linux's AX25 (packet over HAM radio) support
has had me fascinated recently. (The fact that I cannot get broadband,
outside of satellite, at my current location has ... only a little to do
with it. :-) )
Have you guys ever thought of something like this as a part of CFN?
It's definitely a "niche" service, however, it is a pretty cool idea.
The way CFN is now, anyone with wifi can go downtown and hook in - but
if AX25 was supported, anybody who has HAM gear could (from what I
understand) hook up to the CFN station via TCP/IP and have a gateway out
to the larger world. It's especially cool once you consider the idea of
that same HAM station being a wireless access point of its own.. If one
thinks about it long enough, one can easily see how this would solve the
problem of CFN being too localized to downtown. This strategy would
easily let CFN spread all over town to other local access points, where
802.11 would have trouble reaching, and where other standards (WiMax,
xMax, etc) might prove too expensive.
I'm really excited by the idea. But there must be a reason it hasn't
been exploited yet, I am sure. What do you guys all think?
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