[FADCA] re: Autumn TAPR Newsletter

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:45:49 -0500

Comments below...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul J. Toth-NA4AR [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 08:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FADCA] re: Autumn TAPR Newsletter
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> One school of thought is to develop a system that allows any 
> Internet E-Mail browser to be used to send and receive 
> messages.  Another school of thought suggests using a text 
> based Web Browser, allowing the UI to be universal for all 
> users.  Either way, we need to make Packet Radio that simple, 
> that transparent to the end user if we are going to woo them 
> from the big city and back onto the farm.

This falls into the comments in my note to Dale. The text based
browser, client concept is very good because it usually sends
a minimal amount of overhead on the links. Remember that there
will be places where a 1k2 port maybe all that is available,
either due to lack of money or higher speed users. We have to
keep that always in the back of our mind. 
> 
> What would also be "way cool" to go with all this is a 
> PCMCIA-based TNC at 9K6 or faster that would provide 
> reasonable throughput between the client and the server.  
> Imagine a package that is designed to work anywhere, even in 
> the field on an EComm assignment.

I was over at PacComm the other day talking to Linda about this
very thing, I also asked her about a USB TNC, that is of more
interest to her at this moment, though if we could get enough
people to ask about it, I am sure she would be most interested
in attempting to build a PCI Card based TNC. She already has one
that has about that form factor it just needs to be put in a
PCI Card case with the proper connector on each end. PacComm is
one of the few packet radio manufacturers still out there and
again they are located right here in Tampa.

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