[aprssig] Another Source of Network Overload ?? -- Super SUPERLAN

[Bill Vodall]

> I appreciate the innovation, but its a waste of time.  As Jim
> points out 9600 baud one-packet at a time with TXdelays
> barely even doubles throughput.

I let it go once...    9600 with real 9600 radios is not going to be
using 500 millisecond TXdelays.  There's no technical reason it can't
use 50 or even 5 milliseconds.   The Kantronics D4-10 could do that
and it's something like 10 years old.

9600 done right is worth the effort.  Try a real 9600 digital repeater someday and
you be amazed what can be done.   FWIW  - Editing with VI works at 9k6 on packet...
Not terribly responsive but it does work.


You want a SUPERLAN?  Forget the 9k6 and UHF frequencies.  Hook up a
simple 2.4 GHz WiFi card, write a simple program to dump the aprs-is
feed as UDP packets and run the output through a $80 Hawking HSB-1  1/2
watt amplier.

    <http://reviews.cnet.com/Hawking_HSB1_Wireless_Signal_Booster/4514-6461_7-31126286.html>

Spend another $80 on a 10 db onmi and you're flooding the region with APRS data.  Speed
is no longer an issue..


Bill - WA7NWP