[Ham-Mac] Re: WinLinkMac? WinLinkX?

[Don Agro]

Hi Chris,

On Apr 16, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Chris Smolinski wrote:

>> On Apr 16, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>>
>>>>> 1) WinLink is a proprietary system whose protocols are closed and 
>>>>> unpublished, belonging to the Winlink 2000 Development Team.
>>>
>>> When did the FCC change the requirement for amateur radio digital 
>>> transmission protocols to be open and published? I must have missed 
>>> that...
>>
>> I was of course referring to their internal messaging protocol and 
>> .NET - not pactor etc.
>> At any rate it looks like Jim has already done the groundwork in this 
>> area.
>
> Ah, OK, I misunderstood, I though you were saying that some of what 
> was transmitted was using a proprietary protocol, which AFAIK would be 
> a big no-no.

No problem - looks like I was way off base about the closed nature or 
WinLink 2000 anyway :)

> I am looking into adding PACTOR support to MultiMode at some point. 
> Software timing seems to be the critical issue at the moment.
>
> When/if I get that done, there would always be the possibility of 
> someone writing the necessary WinLink code that uses MultiMode as the 
> "modem". Such code could also use a TNC as well, of course. Since 
> MultiMode now offers a TCP/IP server for passing data, it should be 
> pretty easy to use it as a modem, perhaps after adding the ability to 
> control the various modes via TCP/IP (or Applescript) as well.

James has linked RDCP+/Mac to MacLoggerDX, and MacLoggerDX can trigger 
AudioCorder sessions...
If you and James put your heads together perhaps there could be some 
WinLink synergy between MultiMode and RDCP+/Mac ?



73 Don Agro VE3VRW

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