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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">I looked around at 900 MHz and 6m, but then realized that the whole point was to build a 9600 baud network that could be used by EVERYONE with existing APRS integrated radios that have built in 9600 baud TNC’s.</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">It wouldn’t make sense to build a backbone that required all new radios and equipment to use. We’d have no users in an emergency…</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 now I am pretty much sold on the idea of 2 meters. Its that or UHF, but UHF between omnis takes almost 9 dB more link power/budget.</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">I also did the math for solar powered nodes and it is on my new page: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://aprs.org/ec9600net.html">http://aprs.org/ec9600net.html</a></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">Looks like a 20Watt solar panel and 7 Ahr gelcel is a start using the KPC-9612 and one of the $150 digital radios from argent…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Photos on the page…</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><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"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Robert Bruninga [mailto:<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 05, 2016 1:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> The East will Rise again! (at 9600?)</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><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 and although APRS is alive and well, it is specific and only operates at 1200 baud. Although all fully integrated APRS radios work perfectly well at 1200 and 9600 baud, all of the existing APRS network is 1200 because all the digipeaters (not integrated APRS radios) operate at 1200 and the majority of all home APRS stations and IGates use TNC’s that operate at 1200. 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 from Maine to Georgia which could be a significant boost to Packet radio emergency operations. The network would not operate as APRS digipeaters but as KAnodes. As we all knew back in the 1990’s link-by-link acknowledgment was vastly superior to end-to-end. </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>