Sounds fun. Have you looked into the equipment cost? It's limited to something like 9600 bps iirc...
On 10/24/07, andrew kesterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > > > > -- E a t e r http://eater.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
