<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>List Members,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Embrace 1200 baud. It is stable, reliable, and well known-and-understood by the masses.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A 1200 baud service works well and is robust.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">When you think "APRS", think "The IoT of amateur radio" and design to that as a foundation.</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Maybe we need perspective? Here it is: Commercial IoT uses kB per month...not MB or GB. You know those heart monitors that use cellular service to transport data back to the hospital? They have cellular plans in the 10-50 kB per month range. Seriously.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">APRS is uniquely positioned to be "the IoT of amateur radio" by delivering data from sensors of all types. Some data are in cars being tracked and others are (unaligned) weather stations, but this is only the tip of the iceburg...if we only take the time to thing about it more broadly.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Respectfully,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ev, W2EV</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>