[aprssig] APRS vs. SPOT

[Stephen H. Smith]

On 9/7/2011 5:35 PM, jjesson at voyager.net wrote:
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>   SPOT technology 


> is also known as send-and-pray as not an ARQ protocol with Simplex... but a 
> form of repeat packet transmissions improve the odds of correctly receiving 
> packets and this is a setting in their engineering configuration tool.
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Sure sounds like APRS to me.....

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