Hi Andreas, It makes no difference to me whether a European or an African or South American or Australian, etc., develops the software. We have been very fortunate with the developments of PSK modes and then many other sound card modes from several different countries around the world, including the U.S.
My question to John was why he felt it would be a European ham that would develop a new ARQ protocol. If you look longer term with computer development throughout the world, I think it will be very interesting to see how it will unfold over the next decade to two decades. If the majority of developing countries continue to move toward Linux and therefore Linux development, we can expect some world shifts in OS use. And that in turn, will tend to move amateur radio software in that direction too. I personally am moving to more and more Open software, particularly software that works cross platform. That is why I have dropped the use of Microsoft Office and switched to Open Office, and similarly moved to Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP (as much as I can), etc. It is only because of amateur radio software that I can not switch completely over to Linux. If I only needed to browse the internet, have a high end office suite, e-mail, etc., then I would have already made the switch. WINE and even Win4Lin is not perfect either when it comes to certain kinds of interfacing such as port access. 73, Rick, KV9U Andreas Rehberg wrote: >Rick, > >would there be anything wrong with it if it were a european? > >Guys, this is ham radio.. stay calm - and by the way no >nation is better than another > >Andy, DF4WC > >-------- Original-Nachricht -------- >Datum: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:36:52 -0500 >Von: KV9U <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >An: [email protected] >Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes > > > >>John, >> >>Any particular reason you think that European hams will be the ones >>developing the ARQ sound card modes? >> >>We have the one ARQ mode developed by a U.S. ham for MS-Win XP and >>Reins, PSKmail for Linux. In addition, K9PS developed a proposal for ARQ >>modes that I believe was used by Reins for PSKmail. >> >>So it seems to me to be about even at the present time. >> >>73, >> >>Rick, KV9U >> >> >>John Champa wrote: >> >> >> >>>Yes, and he'll be a European. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Many of us have done all the hardware stuff years ago, but it doesn't >>>>interest us anymore. Hardware solutions have a dedicated microprocessor >>>>to keep the timing very tight. Non real time OS's need to have a wider >>>>gap in time. I agree that Amtor and Pactor are dead as far as sound card >>>>modes go. But we will eventually have some enterprising and brilliant >>>>programmer come along and create a practical ARQ mode for sound cards. >>>> >>>>73, >>>> >>>>Rick, KV9U >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
