[aprssig] Open Source/Commercial Use acceptable APRS Alternative?

[Scott Miller]

Kenwood support was always a big issue with any changes. Another big 
philosophical debate (the one that had Bob and I blowing  up the SIG for 
a week straight and getting nothing productive done at our respective 
government jobs) was over who got to decide what types of traffic were 
permissible on network infrastructure and whose responsibility it was to 
ensure (for example) that proper PID parsing was used. I don't think the 
question was ever meaningfully resolved, but Bob and I were at least 
able to have a beer together and laugh about it at the next DCC.

I'd be happy to resurrect OpenTRAC if there's still a role for it to 
play, or to pass the torch to someone who wants to take the lead. There 
are things in there that I'd do differently now, and plenty of my 
original vision that was never realized, but it's not bad compared to a 
whole lot of legacy stuff we're stuck with. (I say as I'm taking a break 
from working on a /de novo/ EchoLink implementation and questioning my 
life choices.)

Scott
N1VG


On 8/16/2023 5:55 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> What happened is that Bob Bruninga came out pretty strongly against OpenTrac because of the Kenwood support in radios and software that already existed.  The friction and conflict in discussion pretty much became a good enough barrier to progress that public discussion disappeared/stopped.
>
> With M-17 rolling out, and its ability to provide an out of band digital data stream, OpenTrac would be a good fit for adding structured data into the transmissions there.
>
> Gregg Wondetly
> W5GGW
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 13, 2023, at 3:33 PM, wa7skg<wa7skg at wa7skg.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I'd be concerned that nothing appears to have been done with OpenTrac in almost 20 years. Technology moves a lot faster than that. Pretty much everything that OpenTrac originally addressed has long since been incorporated into modern APRS clients and protocols.
>>
>> I'd be interested to see what applications currently are supporting 20 year old software.
>>
>> Michael WA7SKG
>>
>>
>> Gregg Wonderly wrote on 8/13/23 10:11 AM:
>>> We really need to open the door to investigation of OpenTrac.  It provides some much more consumable structure that avoids the append this string in this format “design” principals that make APRS difficult to create parsers for.
>>> You’ll find OpenTrac (http://opentrac.org/) support already in some popular trackers!
>>> Gregg Wonderly
>>> W5GGW
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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