[CALV-ARES] FW: A New Open Protocol is Coming

[Eric Christensen]

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Subject: [PG-AresRaces] FW: A New Open Protocol is Coming
Date: Friday, June 12, 2015, 12:40:17 PM
From: 'Steven Heyde' sheyde at verizon.net [PG-AresRaces] <PG-
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FYI  –  From:  Steve KA4TMB

 

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Posted on: Friday, June 12, 2015 11:39 AM
Author: w3qa
Subject: A New Open Protocol is Coming

 


A new, open radio protocol is in the future for Winlink users, and for 
amateurs everywhere. ARDOP (Amateur Radio Digital Open Protocol) 
<http://www.winlink.org/content/ardop_overview>  is a new cooperative radio 
protocol project in which the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation and Rick 
Muething, KN6KB, of the Winlink Development Team is proud to have a major 
role. ARDOP will ultimately replace WINMOR 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winmor>  in the Winlink system because of it's 
superior features and multiple platform (OS) support.

The design is open, and the software implementations will be open-sourced. 
This means you can expect the protocol to take different forms, like a virtual 
TNC using sound-card software on Windows, Linux, Apple OS X, iOS, and Android, 
or in hardware, like a USB plug-in or 'add-on box' using today's low-cost DSP 
CPU chips.

What can you expect of this new protocol? Features like bandwidth negotiation, 
received signal quality feedback in ACK and NAK, auto-timing, more bandwidth 
options and a wider range of performance. It will be optimizable for both HF 
and VHF/UHF radio channels (SSB or FM modes), offer VHF/UHF repeater support, 
and use both ARQ for connected communications and FEC (forward error 
correction) for broadcasts. It will allow multi-language messages with full 
binary support for UTF-8 character set. And you can expect advances in speed 
and efficiency in noisy, multi-path propagating channels, and effective busy-
channel detection to minimize the chance of interference with other 
communications.

Since April, Rick has been making satisfying progress wringing out bugs and 
tuning the protocol with the help of a team of alpha testers. John Wiseman, 
G8BPQ, is writing an ARDOP driver for his BPQ sofware. Soon, beta testing will 
be announced and if interested--and for your promise to assist and make 
accurate reports--you can get involved in the testing, probably early this 
Fall.

We've put together an overview page 
<http://www.winlink.org/content/ardop_overview>  that should answer any 
questions you might have, and send you to the right places for information. 
Exciting times! The Radio Art improves!

Tags: 

Amateur Radio Digital Open Protocol 
<http://www.winlink.org/tags/amateur_radio_digital_open_protocol> 

ARDOP <http://www.winlink.org/tags/ardop> 

protocol <http://www.winlink.org/tags/protocol> 

Winlink <http://www.winlink.org/tags/winlink> 

mode <http://www.winlink.org/tags/mode> 


View article... <http://www.winlink.org/content/new_open_protocol_coming> 

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