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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">SAVE your KPC9612’s Boys, the East will RISE AGAIN!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The Golden Packet team is toying with the idea of making our annual Appalachian mountain digipeater string from Maine to Georgia permament and making it a 9600 baud network for emergency and ham radio disaster response and play. We already have 3 of the 14 sites with approval for installations…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Lets face it, traditional packet networks are dead</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> and</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">although </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">APRS is alive and well</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">, it is specific and</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> only operates at 1200 baud.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> Although all fully integrated APRS radios work perfectly well at 1200 and 9600 baud, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">all of the existing APRS network is 1200</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> because </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">all the digipeaters (not integrated APRS radios) operate at 1200 and the majority of all home APRS stations</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> and IGates</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> use TNC’s</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> that operate</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> at 1200</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">. A huge legacy. Besides, going to 9600 only barely doubles APRS speeds while degrading link reliability.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So, since we have already shown for 6 years now, that this long 2000 mile linear chain of mountains and valleys can support a 2000 mile network with only 14 digis, why not establish a long haul 9600 baud Node chain</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> from Maine to Georgia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> which could be a </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">significant boost to Packet radio emergency operations. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The network would not operate as APRS digipeaters but as KAnodes. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> As we all knew back in the 1990’s link-by-link acknowledgment was vastly superior to end-to-end. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We already have three sites in MD, and PA … But we need more than hikers, to get us access to some existing ham radio maintained sites. We do NOT want nodes to branch off down into the plains. These nodes would bog down the network. No, the main backbone would be to support emergency operations with beams that can point up to the mountains to pass traffic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So, we are splashing this onto the APRSSIG to see if people have SITE access and/or have unused 9600 baud KPC-9612’s to step up and lets see what we got. Also will need a freq. I’m thinking 145.01 but every time I think of it, people give feedback, and I LOSE or forget the feedback as to what existing systems are already on 145.01, such as DX clusters, etc…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Every day we get MORE AND MORE addicted to our wireless infrastructure, which we all know, will be hard to access in a real emergency. We need to keep the Ham radio Plan-B alive…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bob, WB4APR</span></p></div></body></html>