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Thats interesting. Do you think there is a potential of a better protocol suited for HF compared to TCP/IP or even just IP alone. I would also want to hear mor

• h2odragon 6y ago
  "Is there a better protocol" ... absolutely, but design for the use. I had a ~500m link across a campus (heavily wooded) for a while. The main link was often coax cable or fiber, but would get cut several times a year, so there was always need for a backup. I experimented with several rs232 serial port type methods in that time, from directly wired over 500m on cat3 cable (12 pairs per signal worked well), to modems and my own "POTS" telephone line emulation, with a couple of efforts at optical and radio links. Hardware was all scrounged trash and lashed together zombie stuff. Somewhere in the piles I still have one of the 486 motherboards that hosted an end of one of those links during a lightning storm. I soldered patch wires onto the ISA slots after the power traces were vaporized by a close strike and that system lived for some time after that.