Andrew: It's a cool idea and I've love to play with it (I am a licensed ham radio operator), and I don't want to rain on the parade, but there are a number of issues.
First and foremost are some of the rules preventing ham radio from carrying anything for profit or any "obscenity, profanity, or indecency". The first time anyone's traffic passed over a ham link that involved any kind of commerce, pr0n, or both, the licensee (the ham whose callsign is on the ham link) would be in deep doo-doo. And the speeds with reasonably affordable equipment are pretty darn slow.... 9600 bps half duplex (with lethargic turn-around times between transmit and receive) is the fastest commonly available. 73, David andrew kesterson 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? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
