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Yeah, yeah everything old is new again. The one thing I like about faradayrf is they're at least trying. Right now the state of packet radio is either 1200bps
by vvanders 9y ago
Yeah, yeah everything old is new again.
The one thing I like about faradayrf is they're at least trying. Right now the state of packet radio is either 1200bps bell tones with no FEC or modern modulation and on the other end something like FT8 which is incredible but has almost zero bandwidth and good for only communicating "I heard you".
I'd love to see a more modern packet infrastructure that isn't stuck in the 80s.
- kb1lqc 9y agoSpot on ;) In fact this post was meant to start the discussion you are alluding to. Let's not reinvent the wheel as so much as take what we have available to us now and use it combined with some new technology to propel ham radio into modern communications.
- vvanders 9y agoYeah, I would love to see some modern N-QAM, FEC spec make it's way into the APRS space. The number of times I see 144.390 key up at S8+ and no packet has to be at least 50% of the time. Some of the stuff that happens in DMR space is pretty cool, even simple TDMA opens up so many possibilities. You could do Voice+APRS at the same time over the modern repeater network. For instance we've got BawFaw that covers most of SW Washington, would be awesome to be able to run something like that for packet radio.