>>>AA6YQ comments below
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>snip<
Now Dave, you are claiming that three of the top programmers of radio
amateur software in the world offered to help Winlink 2000 and they
turned you down? When did this happen? Before they developed SCAMP?
>>>This occurred in the fall of 2004. I held direct discussions with
Steve K4CJX and Vic W5SMM. Despite early signs of receptiveness, they
made it clear that they would not use anything we developed.
>>>SCAMP was already under development, though without a busy
frequency detector. There were concerns about the choice of RDFT.
>>>Later, I was able to engage with Rick KN6KB and encourage him to
include a busy frequency detector in SCAMP. I was not alone in this
activity. If I made a contribution, it was in helping to convince
Rick that while "good" would be a great first step, waiting
for "perfect" could yield failure.
Why didn't you and Peter and Bob give some consideration to a PSKmail
type of system which gets around some of the shortcomings of Winlink
2000?
>>>If PSKMail existed back then, I wasn't aware of it. It was not our
goal to replace Winlink, but rather to provide it with a better
transport protocol that could use PC-hosted soundcards instead of
hardware TNCs and would not QRM other stations.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
