I'm sure that will change now that it has been mentioned. As the elecraft community are largely builders and experimenters, the closed aspect of Pactor-III doesn't generate the interest that would otherwise drive the discussion. As a protocol, Pactor-III is trying to increase the throughput of a data transfer and it is reasonably successful under the right conditions. The usefulness versus the cost in bandwidth is another issue.
The bigger problem is WinLink 2000 and how it is used. Proper amateur practice requires monitoring the signal to ensure you are not interfering with existing communication. The issue arrises from the WinLink operators who fire up radio connected to the computer and let it go. Frequently, they aren't even listening and WinLink cannot "hear" anything that isn't another WinLink end-point. Everything else is "noise" which WinLink addresses by retrying until it succeeds. Similarly, if the widebanders were only using their capability when they weren't impacting others, there wouldn't be the strong response. -- Clark B. Wierda N8CBW > Everyone gets into such a high dudgeon about ESSB, but I see no one here > complaining about PACTOR III, ... _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
