[Ham-Linux] Linux HF-TCP/IP

[dtx]

Nope.  Read his page, found it interesting...but think it is one of 
those solutions looking for a problem to solve.  I guess the fundamental 
question is why would I want TCP/IP on my HF amateur radio??  I can get 
TCP/IP four separate ways right now, and if anyone ever puts BPL in this 
area, I will have five ways.  I see it as a Mt Everest....it's there so 
let's go climb it.  There is no rational reason to do it except someone 
wants to.  Not trying to imply that everything I've done in my 63 yrs 
has been totally rational and done for a good cause or the betterment of 
mankind on the whole<G>  I did a lot of things just because it felt like 
a good thing to do at the time and tripped my switch ;-)

Ham radio is not about email or web surfing.  It is about person to 
person communications and PSK31 and MFSK16 do fantastic jobs of that at 
1/100th and 1/10th the bandwidth.

OMHO and to each his own,

Gary WA6DTX

kd4e wrote:

> Anyone taken a close look at this?
> http://www.chbrain.dircon.co.uk/hfemail.html
>
> Sounds promising though it would require some minor
> tweaking of the regs by the FCC.
>