[aprssig] time for APRS second generation network?

[Earl Needham]

At 11:03 AM 1/5/2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Earl Needham wrote:
><snip>
> >          What the heck?  We've had a seven-hop limit for YEARS.  What class
> > did I sleep through???
>
>I've been around packet for years too:  Built first TNC in early
>'85.  Did software decoding of AX.25 frames before that with an
>XR-2211 chip and a single interrupt pin into a uP.  It's amazing
>what you can do when you're a poor college student who can't afford
>a TNC.  ;-)
>
>The 2.0 spec calls out eight max,  New spec calls out two.  I went
>and looked again just to make sure.  You can find both specs on the
>'net with a google search.

         Yeah, I DID!  And the limit is EIGHT, not SEVEN.

         I turned 50 last September.  They say memory is the second thing 
to go.  Sure wish I could remember what the FIRST thing to go was...

         Earl


Earl Needham, KD5XB, Clovis, New Mexico DM84jk
http://kd5xb-2.no-ip.info