On 4/22/07, Bill Vodall WA7NWP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would have some concerns about connecting Convers and IRC/Jabber unless
> > I had complete control over the people using the system (to ensure they
> > were licensed amateurs if connecting over the Internet outside the
> > 44.x.x.x net).
>
> Indeed I can find agreement with this, however, there is a particular
mechanism
> that might work to afford a comfortable stance for containing the allowance of
> Ham's to legally and lawfully connect to the Internet.
We went through all of these connectivity issues 15+ years ago. It's
no longer an issue -- at least here in the US.
If there are abuses, we have the technology to deal with it. That
process has served us well for many years and it hasn't been the end
of the world as we know it because a few packets generated by non-hams
have been transmitted as third party content.
What is hobbling the progress in Amateur Radio is the lack of folks
getting on the air and doing neat stuff. Far too many of our
frequency resources are vastly underused and that's a shame since
there have never been so many opportunities for experimentation and
communications. Connecting Jabber, IRC and Convers then bringing
that to APRS and our mobile D700/D7 messaging technology is, to me,
just one example of what we can do.
73
Bill - WA7NWP
PS. Don't get me started on 1200 baud in 2007 - or the 44 net. :-)
I want a palm type device that will let me do VoIP and images, and run at
a reasonable speed. Where I worked up until a year ago (sales did not sell
so they got rid of field and R&D, go figure) we did some work with palm type
devices and 802.11 to do VoIP and images to a handheld a utility tech would
carry around with him, but get hams to do the same thing (you can go out
and buy all of the pieces to do a prototype) is like pulling hen's teeth. No do
not get me started either... All the bits and pieces are out there to do it and
we STILL do nothing... There is so much neat stuff to do, but no one is inter-
ested except a very small group of us (I am doing some optical stuff which I
think has promise for some disaster recovery scenarios) I go to hamfest and
come home depressed... No wonder it is hard to get young people in the
hobby.
By way the devices we used at the place I worked were COTS boxes from
CompUSA, Circuit City, etc... No black boxes, but some or our guys made
them work. That was stuff we hams used to do and show it to the rest of the
world, now it is bass ackward...
--
Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
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."
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