<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Kenneth Finnegan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kennethfinnegan2007@gmail.com" target="_blank">kennethfinnegan2007@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">K... well there's now a bunch of us building digipeaters on Cortex ARM cores or full Linux SBCs getting pretty frustrated that most of the digipeater behavior documentation out there is a list of settings for UNPROTO and BTEXT and whatever fields, which mean nothing to us youngins who have never seen a TAPR TNC2. I'm trying to move past all the prehistoric</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>glad to hear it. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">So I've got you down as one vote for "Punish by reducing the requested hops to maxhop."</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps punish is a bad word choice. Unfortunately, the term "QoS drop" seems to also be a dirty word to many APRS elites.</div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>unfortunately many "APRS elites" don't seem to understand networking basics...</div><div> </div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">When are you guys going to start actually building something and not just discourage those of us trying to get something done?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry if that sounded like discouragement - I meant it more as encouragement to make APRS more like a network and less like a conglomeration of hacks.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> Go pick a new packet frequency and let us know when you've got a working prototype of whatever comes after APRS.</blockquote></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Y'know, I've thought about that but I don't really enjoy talking to myself, and I don't think anyone else would use/advance the work. I don't run any digis, I don't have equipment or access to sites to locate equipment.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So I make my own little hacks and use the parts of APRS that are useful when I can, and let it go at that.</div><br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Jason<br>kg4wsv</div>
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