[FADCA] Lost another one to Dia Tec!

[Chuck Hast]

On Apr 7, 2005 7:11 PM, Russell Oder <oderr at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Thinking again, Mike I am working on the combined voice and 9600 bps packet
> repeater.  I have a digital regenerator and am working with KF4MX in St.
> Augustine to set up my 2 meter and 440 repeaters to handle both data and
> voice.  As we get them on the air, I will keep you up to date.  It really is
> not an either/or situation.
> 

Sorry about that msg that had no text from me in it... Hit the wrong button.

Russ, the combined voice/packet repeater is a very good use of resources.
We have talked it over a bit, I do not understand why it is not done more
often. There are loads of repeaters out there that set idle for most of the
day and could be used to pass data, indeed some of that data could be
of use to the voice users.

By using PL you can control when data can be sent and give voice priority
over voice, I have done such systems for the commercial world now for
many years and it can work quite well. Using 9k6 even when the users
do hear a data burst it just sounds like a soft open squelch since it is
usually only run at 3Khz or less deviation.

Hope that the people up in the Ocala area will give it a thought as it would
resolve a lot of problems, I have been through disasters where we used
packet for most of the back and forth traffic from the disaster area to the
hospitals and the voice was used only for those occasions where it was
the quickest way to explain something, but packet can not be beat when
you need a clear trail of messaging and also want to keep the number
of hands on the message from end to end at a minimum, properly done
the sender and receiver are the only two who actually do anything at all
with the message and with automatic forwarding and e-mail they are the
only ones who even need to come in contact with the data.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."