--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Brabham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What was it that caused Packet networks in the United States to decline over > the course of a decade that saw astounding growth and advancement of the > Packet network in Europe?
............... > Greg Jones and his NOS buddies cut thier own noses off to spite thier > face. - If they had read and understood a copy of The Amateurs Code and went > by its tenets, they would be enjoying high-speed amateur tcpip this very > day - just as hams in Europe have been doing for decades. ............ Wow...this is so very disheartening. Disgusting, even. It makes me want to crawl back into the corner and ignore packet, like so many other hams seem to have done. But I can't and I won't, because digital radio is what I do. So perhaps I just need to not be concerned with trying to pick up the broken pieces and putting them back together again. Maybe there's just too many bad memories attached to the words "packet" for many hams. But if I just pursue digital radio on VHF & UHF without regards to the old baggage, I may just step on some toes. But I am not going to step on signals, if I can at all avoid doing so. Maybe I should tell whomever is reading this thread about the data I wish to distribute. It is sensor data. Everything from temperature through propagation through ionizing radiation levels. All for consumption by the amateur radio community and eventually the public. This can start with data from the shacks of interested experimenters, but I'd like it to proceed to the time when dedicated sensors/computer/radio stations are set up in appropriate areas. I think we can be useful to the world and have some fun at the same time. Along with sensor data, the network can pass other traffic as well. But the prime directive, the "raison d'etre", is sensor data. I am not saying that this is all digital radio, or VHF/UHF packet, has to be, but it is what I am interested in, and I am interested to hear what others might have to say in regards to this application of amateur radio. 73, Bob N1YRK
