[aprssig] What is APRS, really?

[Robert Bruninga]

>
> The Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) was a pioneering unconnected data
> sharing system. I believe Bob Bruninga was involved. My suspicion is that
> NTDS was the germ for the idea of APRS. (Bob?).
>
> Yes! But specifically, the LINK-16 HF channel for exchanging that NTDS
data was my first decode of positis.  It was standard 5 bit Baudot and so I
wrote a basic routine in an APPLE-II to plot them.
But never showed it to anyone but my boss since the data and symbols were
classified (I think).  Besides who else was there to play with.  Hence I
moved to Ham radio!
Bob
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