Hopefully, there will be a shift toward more open software which would be more in line with amateur radio tradition.
The Winlink 2000 folks keep everything proprietary up to this point. That even includes the old software such as Winlink. From what we can tell, Winlink 2000 has one main programmer who is very accomplished, but one person can only do so much. There may be one other person working with them but it is not clear and they are not open to discussion. SCAMP actually uses components from Linux and uses GPL'd software such as RDFT. But it is hard to tell what future software would be used. It has been a year or two since any development was done on SCAMP that has been openly discussed. The one ARQ mode currently available for sound card use is the Linux based PSKmail. Even Linux sound card Pactor I may not work as well as hardware versions, although I wonder if the much more powerful computers of today might help remediate that. The huge breakthrough that SCAMP provided in addition to the busy channel detect capability, was the "pipelined" ARQ which eliminated the computer timing issues. After all it worked fabulously well (with a good signal) on Windows XP. Pipelining also means that when you ARQ a mode, it doesn't appreciably slow down the throughput, although it will increase latency somewhat since the software is working on the last packet of data while the next packet is being received. It is my view that the amateur radio community can best benefit when we have cross platform products that interoperate. 73, Rick, KV9U kd4e wrote: >Given that the developers have little or no motivation >nor spare resources to bring SCAMP into the light the >task must fall to an proprietary-app independent team. > >Are there elements of SCAMP that are controlled by the >proprietary Winlink2000 licensing that make independent >work impossible or improbable? > >Linux developers wrestle past the efforts of MS and Adobe >and others to prevent interoperability of Linux with their >apps and have succeeded magnificently. > >Perhaps the solution to the SCAMP/Winlink2000 protocol >bottleneck will be found in the Linux world? > > > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
