Re: radio net

["Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>]

On 9/8/98 2:29 PM, Ryan Lackey (ryan@systemics.ai)  passed this wisdom:


>Is anyone else interested in setting up a radio net (probably packet radio
>relay) to relay small quantities of data in the event the telecommunications
>infrastructure becomes unavailable (either technically or 
>legally/politically/militarily)?  There are existing packet relay nets, but 
>in my experience amateur radio people, especially in the US, are very 
>willing to roll over for the government at the slightest cause.

 you tar with too wide a brush ... one of the pioneers of ham packet 
radio is Phil Karn, who definitely isn't in to submissive roll overs! For 
that matter neither am I, though, sadly the greater number of hams do fit 
your description.

>I think the cost would be something like $1-5k per station, and it could
>be done in a fairly turnkey fashion.  Exactly how to handle routing and
>what protocol to use on the network is kind of an open question -- there
>are a lot of solutions, none of them optimal.

 so what are you interested in setting up????


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