At 09:23 PM 10/17/2007, you wrote: >Of course traffic going through your station has to be read or it would >not have a purpose, but one of the "selling points" that the Winlink >2000 folks claimed in the past, was that because of the compression it >made it virtually impossible to anyone to monitor the traffic.
***In 1984 they started doing the very same thing to Packed traffic from one BBS to the other. >The problem is that some people are using ham radio for commercial >purposes ***this may be true, but, as I have said I have not seen it. >I suppose what constitutes commercial traffic might vary some from >individual to individual, but I would not use it for any business *** Nor would I. >transactions, stock market quotations or buying and selling, that sort >of thing. I can see where it would be nice to use for sending messages >to relatives and friends if I was traveling, but this can only be >available for very few people. > >As you know, I think that we need better, faster, and spectrum >conserving sound card modes. ***So where do you stand on Packet. It's about as slow and wide as well as out dated as it can get.. But as far as a ARQ sound card mode, the only thing I have seen was a system that only could do 43.7% of what the TNC did. In other words, sent the traffic went out for lunch and still waited for the none TNC system to get done. John, W0JAB
