[aprssig] 9600 baud SuperSite for LA

[Phillip B. Pacier]

Spider wrote:

> Bob and All,
>
> I ran 9600 baud nodes for a few years.....as a backbone for 220 2400 
> baud nodes and 2m 1200 bad nodes as well as running a node on a 4800 
> baud 6m system.
> Guess what?  9600 baud is not going to fix So Cal.  It's not as fast 
> as you think in a Packet mode.  And with most all the amateur mods, 
> the radios pretty much have the same txd's and tails, etc.  The actual 
> savings is not impressive.  And that is not to mention the added 
> bandwidth required which requires paths that are better designed, etc.
> So Cal area needs to be focusing on real microwave backbones running 
> 56k or T1 or better in a full duplex link arrangement.  THAT's why the 
> internet works so good as a backbone....it's cheap, it's there, and it 
> works!

I agree if you're talking about backbones, and I'll take credit for 
opening the wrong can of worms and talking about backbones, but what 
we're really trying to accomplish is better management of the existing 
VHF 1200 baud network.

73
Phil - AD6NH